Court rules that it's unconstitutional to let a transgender guard strip search a Muslim prisoner

[kelly1mm]

SNIP

A federal court has ruled that a Muslim prisoner’s religious rights were violated when a Wisconsin prison had a transgender male guard observe a strip-search being performed on him.

Rufus West, a 51-year-old Muslim man convicted in 1995 of armed robbery, said that the strip search took place in 2016 inside of the Green Bay Correctional Institution. Isaac Buhle, a trans male guard in the prison, was asked to observe the strip search while another guard conducted it.

In his 2017 lawsuit against the prison, West said that he felt “panic” at Buhle seeing him naked because he believes that Buhle is actually a woman, Courthouse News explained. It is against his religion, he said, for anyone other than his wife to see him naked.

When West filed a religious exemption request to prison warden Scott Eckstein asking to never again be observed by Buhle during a strip-search, Eckstein reportedly rejected the request, which led to West filing his lawsuit.



https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/court-rules-that-it-s-unconstitutional-to-let-a-transgender-guard-strip-search-a-muslim-prisoner/ar-AA12vZRW?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=ba9a11ff8c05430f80791c638f61d61d

[keithbvadu2]

1. It cannot be a transgender issue.

"It is against his religion, he said, for anyone other than his wife to see him naked. "

Then his objection would be equally applicable to any male guard.

[edhopper]

2. So the fucking court

Is agreeing that he is a woman. Fucking religious fascists.