The NY Times had a front-page article about one of the pressing issues of the day: a drug addict and burglar who calls himself a woman and who is unhappy in men's prison. on the day she arrived at a Georgia prison intake center in 2012, the deliberate defeminizing of Ms. Diamond began. Ordered to strip alongside male inmates, she froze but ultimately removed her long hair and the Hannah Montana pajamas in which she had been taken into custody, she said. She hugged her rounded breasts protectively. I suppose this is supposed to make Mr. Diamond (the article calls him Ms. Diamond, but I am not playing along) look sympathetic, but it just makes him sound very odd, especially the part about this 36-year-old con artist wearing children's pajamas. Looking back, she said, it seemed an apt rite of initiation into what became three years of degrading and abusive treatment, starting with the state’s denial of the hormones she says she had taken for 17 years. But on...(Read Full Post)