Transgender prison guard says colleagues call her a freak. Now she's suing California
It didn’t take long for Meghan Frederick to feel the harassment she feared would come when she told her fellow correctional officers at a Sacramento prison that she identified as a transgender woman.
Her peers had known her for a decade as an athletic man who’d left a career in finance to join the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
One colleague greeted the news of Frederick’s gender transition by openly declaring, “back in the day we would never let someone like (Frederick) work in the prison, we would have run them out of here,” Frederick remembered.
Five years later, Frederick says, her colleagues are still rejecting her identity as a transgender woman.
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