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Transgender woman settles case against hotel that got her jailed for eight days [View all]
Source: The Guardian
Transgender woman settles case against hotel that got her jailed for eight days
Meagan Taylor was arrested last July in Iowa while staying at Drury Inn
with a friend after staff called police to report ‘two men’ engaged in
prostitution
Zach Stafford in Chicago
Wednesday 29 June 2016 23.44 BST
A transgender woman who was jailed for eight days after hotel staff called the police to report “two men” engaging in prostitution, has settled her lawsuit against the hotel.
Last July, Meagan Taylor, 22, and her friend, both black transgender women, spent the night at the Drury Inn in West Des Moines, Iowa. The pair had been on their way to Kansas City to attend a funeral. But Taylor wound up getting arrested and spending eight days in a county jail after being found in possession of her hormone drugs without a copy of her prescription, a charge that was later dropped.
While the details of Taylor’s case could not be disclosed due to a confidentiality agreement tied to the settlement, her case is a reflection of the continued struggles transgender people face across the US, civil liberties groups said.
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The ACLU was able to settle the case, because Iowa is one of only 16 states that protects transgender people from discrimination under state law.
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Meagan Taylor was arrested last July in Iowa while staying at Drury Inn
with a friend after staff called police to report ‘two men’ engaged in
prostitution
Zach Stafford in Chicago
Wednesday 29 June 2016 23.44 BST
A transgender woman who was jailed for eight days after hotel staff called the police to report “two men” engaging in prostitution, has settled her lawsuit against the hotel.
Last July, Meagan Taylor, 22, and her friend, both black transgender women, spent the night at the Drury Inn in West Des Moines, Iowa. The pair had been on their way to Kansas City to attend a funeral. But Taylor wound up getting arrested and spending eight days in a county jail after being found in possession of her hormone drugs without a copy of her prescription, a charge that was later dropped.
While the details of Taylor’s case could not be disclosed due to a confidentiality agreement tied to the settlement, her case is a reflection of the continued struggles transgender people face across the US, civil liberties groups said.
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The ACLU was able to settle the case, because Iowa is one of only 16 states that protects transgender people from discrimination under state law.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/29/transgender-woman-meagan-taylor-iowa-hotel
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