"These women are targets": Transgender women fight for their rights in Colorado's prisons

Thousands of transgender women across the nation are living with fear while incarcerated. Now attorneys have filed a class-action lawsuit in Colorado on behalf of trans women imprisoned in Colorado Department of Corrections male facilities.
 
The Transgender Law Center and law firm King & Greisen filed the suit in late November on behalf of approximately 170 transgender women, alleging systemic abuse inside Colorado's male prisons in violation of the state's anti-discrimination act. The suit also claims that the Colorado Department of Corrections, known as CDOC, has discriminated against transgender women solely on the basis of their gender identity.