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Prisons in Rio de Janeiro State Seek to Protect Transgender Inmates, Expand Their Rights

  • Jenny Barchfield
  • July 1, 2015
  • Associated Press

RIO DE JANEIRO — When Estefanie Ferraz went to prison, she had been living as a woman for around a decade, had undergone more than half a dozen plastic surgeries including breast and cheek implants to enhance her feminine looks, and was saving up for a sex change operation. But her identification card said she