Treatment of Trans Prisoners Gaining Notice Thanks to CeCe McDonald and Leslie Feinberg

CeCe -- like the majority of transsexed women -- is being classified as male by the state and being made to serve her sentence in a mens' prison, where there is inevitably an extremely high likelihood of prison rape. McDonald's incarceration is another in a long line of injustices that trans and LGBT communities are often apathetic about addressing, usually because of the belief that a person convicted of crime deserves the punishment somehow. Will this be the moment in which we finally rise up against the long-standing legacies of cruel and unusual punishment, institutional bias, and the exponentially severe nature of intersectional discrimination?