— Kim KellyThe Silvia Rivera Law Project notes, “Over-policing and profiling of low-income people and of trans and gender-nonconforming people intersect, producing a far higher risk than average of imprisonment, police harassment and violence for low-income trans people.” According to Lambda Legal, nearly one in six transgender Americans—and one in two Black transgender people—have been to prison.
Replicated under Fair Use from Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor by Kim Kelly.