Autumn Sandeen, a navy veteran and prominent transgender activist, joined HuffPost Live on Aug. 23 to discuss her time in jail and the treatment she received from corrections officers. Sandeen was arrested twice for handcuffing herself to the White House fence in protest of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" prior to the repeal of the controversial U.S. military legislation. Her experiences while incarcerated seem to point to the larger issue of how transgender individuals are treated in jail. "The D.C. policy for how they deal with trans people includes calling us impersonators," said Sandeen. "And then once I got into the main block over at the D.C. jailhouse that was underneath the courthouse, I was...
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