Makyyla Holland said she was “scarred” by her treatment within the jail. “When they found out that I was trans, I instantly was a target. I felt like the jail was not equipped for a trans woman and definitely a trans woman of color.”
When Makyyla Holland was arrested and brought to a New York jail, she told corrections officers she was a transgender woman and feared being housed with men. The 23-year-old training nurse’s assistant in Binghamton also disclosed to the jailers that she had trauma from being sexually assaulted by a man when she was young.
The lawsuit names multiple defendants, including Broome County Sheriff David Harder, the jail’s chief administrator Mark Smolinsky, and several corrections officers. In an email to The Daily Beast, Harder said he was on vacation and didn’t know anything about the suit. TLDEF spokesperson Khadijah Silver declined to comment on the circumstances of Holland’s arrest but said “her daily interactions with police stem from Makyyla being low-income, Black and living in a highly-policed community.”
The lawsuit states that detention officers “gratuitously revealed Ms. Holland’s transgender status widely within the jail,” and one jailer in particular, identified as officer Parris George, “relentlessly harassed” her including by calling her a “tranny,” “transformer” and “faggot.” This time, however, the jail also allegedly refused to provide her medications for four weeks. Holland had prescriptions for an antidepressant and hormone replacement therapy drugs, and she says going without them caused her to experience severe withdrawal symptoms, depression, and suicidal ideation. Days before her release, they provided her with one estrogen injection.
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