Transgender woman brutally abused in jail wins landmark settlement [Video]

When DeAnna LeTray, a trans woman in New York, was arrested after she called the police during a domestic incident at her home, authorities at the county jail tore her wig off, subjected her to a cavity and strip search, sexually abused her, and housed her with male inmates.

She was arrested, she said, after the responding cops misgendered and verbally abused her, stating, “We can’t let you walk the streets looking and dressed like a woman.”

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“That night, when that happened, it completely changed my life,” LeTray told City&State. “When I was in the jail cell after the assault, I wanted to die. That’s how horrible it was.”

She’s won a landmark lawsuit in the aftermath.

After her arrest and assault in 2017, LeTray filed a lawsuit against the Watertown …