In honor of Pride Month 2020 we are highlighting a previously recorded interview with Addison Rose Vincent dated back to May 2018. In an interview with Addison on LGBTQ health and human rights, they stated:

Many people in the transgender community are arrested, criminalized, and incarcerated at high rates. In incarceration and when we’re detained we experience high rates of violence in those settings. Many times, transwomen of color or transwomen, in general, are put into men’s facilities where we’re susceptible to higher rates of violence in those facilities. We endure assault, physical violence, harassment, and invalidation, not just by other people there, the inmates but prison guards, the staff that is meant to protect us. We know that transgender people are not safe in these settings. We know that people, in general, are not safe in prisons or detention centers.

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