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Six days after President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January, Alishea Kingdom went to a medical appointment at the federal prison in New Jersey where she’s incarcerated. It was time for her to take the hormonal medication she’d been prescribed years before to treat her gender dysphoria. But prison staffers would no longer give her the medicine—or the bras, underwear, and other feminine items she’d gotten used to wearing. Without her hormone therapy, Kingdom started having panic attacks, struggled to sleep, and experienced suicidal thoughts.
Kingdom is one of about 2,000 transgender people in federal prisons who have lost access to medical care or may soon lose access to it because of the Trump…