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No One Enters Like Thembn: How long did it go on?KL: As long as I was there. For three years.bn: So, did you know about the lost CDC cases while you were experiencingrape? Was there cultural information that you had heard while youwere serving time that it wasn’t worth it to report that?KL: No, because you’re locked up. You’re in a place where you don’t getice water, you don’t get popcorn, certain things that you’re accustomed tohaving that are so small and minute that you don’t get. But if you play bytheir rules, they’ll bring you…. In the summertime, it gets a hundred andsome degrees in a cell like this. So they’ll bring you buckets of ice, andcold sodas, and pizzas, and food from the street, anything to pacify you.You want some bras and panties, your man think you look good in that?Here—some panties and bra. You need some lipstick?bn: I want to back up a second: So in the jail—SF jail?—there’s a transgendersection?KL: There was one when I was there. When I was raped, there was atransgendered section. They had a split level: Down on the lower levelthere are guys, and half the upper level is the transgenders, and after Igot raped, they stopped us from having interaction with the men, period.Even though it was the deputy sheriff that raped me.bn: Sorry that that happened. And what about in prison, there were nottransgender cells?KL: No. No, you fell in with men.bn: You talked about, that there were not venues for repercussionsagainst rape in prison. What about other healthcare and taking care ofyour body?KL: No, it’s deplorable, as any place else. San Quentin has been writtenup so many times for health violations. They have all of these epidemicsbreaking out. It’s deplorable—it’s deplorable. I must say this, they didmake sure that I had a sports bra. So they gave me bras, and stuff, but it223