Incarcerated trans women self-mutilate for gender-affirming surgery

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Incarcerated trans women self-mutilate for gender-affirming surgery

CW: This article contains mentions of self-harm and mutilation A trans woman incarcerated in a New Jersey men’s prison severely mutilated herself after waiting years for gender-affirming surgery that would create a pathway for her to move to the state’s only women’s prison. She is one of several trans women in recent years to resort to self-harm amid delays in necessary medical care. Gia Valentina told Prism that she removed her testicles with a…