to-female pre-operative transgender immigrant, was detained in Krome Detention Center in Miami, Florida awaiting an appeal of her asylum claim.'She fled Mexico after she was violently attacked for being transgender. 2Madrazo was placed in solitary confinement at Krome because officials were unsure whether to house her with men or women. 3 Solitary confinement was isolating and made her extremely vulnerable to attacks by prison guards. 4 One of the guards, in charge of bringing her meals and watching over her safety, raped her on two separate occasions. 5 The first time, the guard attacked Madrazo in her cell and tried to force her to perform oral sex on him. 6 When she refused, he sodomized her until he heard another person approaching. 7 Madrazo reported the rape, but the officer was still allowed to serve her food the next day. 8Later that night, he raped her a second time. 9Unfortunately, this tragic story is not uncommon; transgender detainees, particularly male-to-female
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