A resident of Miami was taken over a trainer and put in a men's cell.

A federal judge in Florida last month resumed a lawsuit filed by an American mother and grandmother, who was taken for a transgender man in prison, as a result of which she spent about 10 hours in a receiver behind bars with 40 male prisoners who were stormy to her interest.

Photo: Miami-Dade County Corrections Department

Court ruling means trial on behalf of Fior Pichardo de Velos against Dr. Fredeswindo Rodriguez-Garcia and Nurse Fatou Camara Harris from the Miami-Dade Correctional Department, reports Fox 32.

“Every reasonable prison officer and medical staff has a duty to know that misclassifying a biological female as a male inmate and placing that woman among the male staff of a detention facility is unlawful,” Judge Frank Hull said unequivocally on November 21.

Harris was reportedly told "repeatedly and repeatedly" that Pichardo was a woman, but she "stubbornly refused" to confirm the arrestee's gender. The doctor "knew that sending the woman to a men's prison would pose a serious threat to her safety, but took no steps to verify Pichardo's gender before classifying her as a man," the court said.

55-year-old Pichardo, a lawyer and an elected official from the Dominican Republic, was arrested in November 2013 at Miami International Airport on suspicion of an old drug case.

During the reception process, the Turner Guilford prisoner arrested at the Turner Center was asked if she was a man, as her documents said that she was taking hormonal pills. According to the court, at the time she was taking hormone replacement therapy to cope with the symptoms of menopause.

Before classifying her as a man, the doctor never physically examined Pichardo or asked her about her gender or why she was taking the pills, according to the documents. The nurse also identified Fior Pichardo de Veloz as a man and added the following phrase to her papers: “Transgender, male organs, feminine behavior.”

Some staff at the facility raised concerns about Pichardo being placed in a cell with men, but they were ignored. According to the court, one of the jailers told Fiore: “You are a woman. You'll be lucky if you live to see tomorrow."

There were about 40 people in the cell with Pichardo, who taunted her and shouted: “Mommy! Mommy!".

She was so afraid to use the toilet that she had to urinate under herself, according to court documents.

The male jailers also laughed at her. The mistake was not discovered until the Pichardo family arrived at the prison - only then they took her out of her cell.

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