International
Transgender woman impregnates fellow inmates in US prison
A transgender woman identified as Demi Minor has impregnated two female inmates at an all-women prison in New Jersey, the United States.
The women are serving jail terms at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility.
The spokesman for the New Jersey Department of Corrections, Dan Sperrazza, told journalists on Friday that the women became pregnant after “consensual sexual relationships with another incarcerated person.”
READ ALSO: Transgender wants to be mom and dad to her baby
Demi Minor admitted she was responsible for the two women pregnancy via the website Justice 4 Demi, which she operates from the prison.
The prison houses 27 transgender inmates who are biological men identifying as women.
They were transferred to the facility in 2019 following a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and a transgender woman who complained she suffered from abuse in a men’s prison.
Join the conversation
Support Ripples Nigeria, hold up solutions journalism
Balanced, fearless journalism driven by data comes at huge financial costs.
As a media platform, we hold leadership accountable and will not trade the right to press freedom and free speech for a piece of cake.
If you like what we do, and are ready to uphold solutions journalism, kindly donate to the Ripples Nigeria cause.
Your support would help to ensure that citizens and institutions continue to have free access to credible and reliable information for societal development.
INVESTIGATION: In Kwara, multimillion-naira milk processing plant is abandoned, converted to a chicken outlet
After the government spent millions of naira to establish a milk processing plant in Kwara State that would provided jobs...
SPECIAL REPORT: For Sokoto communities, promise of healthcare is akin to death sentence
In this story, ABDULRASHEED HAMMAD delves into the dire realities of Primary Health Care services in Sokoto State, shedding light...
ICYMI…SPECIAL REPORT: NNPCL hides behind PIA to frustrate disclosure, accountability
Nigeria’s major oil company, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL), in what appears to be a common practice of disregard...
INVESTIGATION: Multi-million naira Ekiti resort center remains uncompleted a decade after
The multimillion-naira project, expected to comprise recreational buildings, now consists of cassava farmland, a bush used for excretion, and a...
SPECIAL REPORT: Torturous experiences of students with disabilities in Oyo tertiary institutions
For students with disabilities in Oyo state-owned tertiary institutions, learning is a torturous and distressing experience, considering the building structures...