WA transgender prisoner policy lands before state Supreme Court
Washington’s state Supreme Court justices will weigh in on where a transgender woman held in state prisons should be confined, as the state faces a federal probe over the issue.
The court on Tuesday heard arguments in the case of Amber Kim, who had been held in the Washington Corrections Center for Women in Gig Harbor before she was moved to the men’s prison in Monroe due to an infraction.
Kim argues this decision amounts to unconstitutionally cruel punishment that puts her safety at risk and sets back her transition.
The Trump administration is now investigating how Washington houses incarcerated trans people, after a lawsuit from a prisoner in the state’s women’s prison alleged a transgender woman attacked her there.
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/06/23/wa-transgender-prisoner-policy-lands-before-state-supreme-court/
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