www.nytimes.com/2019/02/15/nyregion/transgender-jail-hormone-therapy.html
See how many ways the NYT tries to avoid assigning agency to this criminal.
Starting with the title
"How a Trans Soldier Took On the Jail That Denied Her Medication, and Won"
Someone in civilian prison for civilian crimes after leaving the military is not a 'soldier'.
"She began her transition during a tour of Iraq. When jail doctors on Long Island "
Spoiler: the transition was with unprescribed internet drugs which caused liver damage.
'When the testosterone started to flow through her system, Jessica Sunderland felt the changes immediately.
“I had to do stuff to deal with the anger,” '
Let's just imply that the lack of hormone suppressants causes uncontrollable animal violence shall we? What is this shit?
"She was an army veteran who had served in Iraq, but at that moment, in the fall of 2012, she was in the Suffolk County Correctional Facility on charges of burglary, kept in a cell 21 hours per day, in a body at war with her conception of who she was."
Again the army status isn't particularly relevant here. If you commit crimes you are likely to end up in jail.
"On a recent afternoon in her lawyer’s office, Ms. Sunderland presented a new phase of her life, including life as a blonde, with long braided hair extensions that she flicked away"
Life as a blonde? Flicked? What is this shit? Some sort of porno fantasy?
"“Transgender folks are criminalized in our society,”
Well no, crime is criminalised.
“I think I’m a pretty fairly decent researcher,” she said. “I can discern stuff. I go online and I would compare 20 people’s regimens and say, all right, these three sound like they know what they’re doing. I kind of made my own regimen.”
Still, she knew she was on shaky ground. “I’m ordering prescription drugs over the internet on a military base in Iraq,”
Orly.
"the complications began after she returned home from Iraq in 2009. She found doctors to prescribe the hormones she had bought off the internet, including those at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Manhattan.
But she developed a growth on her liver that moved her doctors to discontinue the estrogen, maintaining only the testosterone blockers.
“I started going into menopause, having hot flashes,”
Orly2.
"Finally she had the liver growth surgically removed, through an incision running all the way across her abdomen, and her doctors cleared her to resume the estrogen. But the surgery put her out of work, and she started to buy street drugs to manage the pain from the operation, then for recreation. Soon she and an acquaintance were robbing houses to get money for drugs, including heroin and crack cocaine"
Yeah that sounds pretty criminal and pretty standard for Americans after surgery and pain medication.
"For 16 months, until she was finally transferred to a prison upstate, she received neither the estrogen nor the testosterone blockers.
At trial, the doctors testified that they cut off treatment out of concern that the liver growth might return."
Sounds reasonable.
"she has been unable to find work, even after earning a certificate in medical billing and coding at a nearby technical school.
Her classmates in the medical billing program found jobs, she said, but she has not. She was not sure what role bias played."
Are the classmates convicted felons?
"The jury found that the doctors had violated her constitutional right to necessary medical care and awarded her $355,000 in damages, plus a slightly larger sum that went to her lawyers."
Ah yes, a slightly larger sum to the lawyers. The real story here.