A transgender prisoner who impregnated two fellow inmates at a women’s prison in New Jersey has disclosed an attempt to remove one of her testicles with a razor after being misgendered at her new men’s facility.
Demi Minor, 27, was moved from Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Union Township to the Garden State Youth Correctional Facility (GSYCF) with male inmates in June after guards discovered the pregnancies.
Minor, serving a 30-year sentence for fatally stabbing her former foster father, has since voiced mistreatment and abuse at her new prison, where staff refused to acknowledge her gender identity.
In an August 18 post on her Justice 4 Demi blog, she revealed ending up in the emergency room after attempting to cut out one of her testicles with a razor in an apparent suicide effort.
Minor expressed feeling ‘hopeless’ and ‘ignored’ at GSYCF after being asked to prove her transgender status despite providing medical records confirming hormone therapy.
She claimed to have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria, making her ‘five times more likely’ to die by suicide, and admitted to concealing these thoughts.
Since her transfer, Minor reported receiving letters from men asking for sexual favors and experiencing emotional struggles.
She cited the women at Edna as the only family she ever had and expressed distress over being ‘stuck in a body that I hate’.
Referring to impregnating two women while at Edna, Minor acknowledged the devastating consequences and blamed herself for the resulting hostility toward her community and loved ones.
Minor, born as Demetrius Minor, was just 16 when she broke into the home of her stepfather and fatally stabbed him before fleeing to New York, where she was arrested.
Having started her transition in 2020, she was transferred out of the male prison system to Mahan, which began housing transgender women, including those who have not undergone gender reassignment surgery, following a lawsuit brought by an inmate and the ACLU.