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Texas Secretly Started Torturing Trans Prisoners By Forcibly Detransitioning Them ‘a Few Weeks Ago’
(www.transiticsnews.com)
this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2026
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It's insane, but courts have interpreted "cruel and unusual" to require the punishment to be BOTH cruel AND unusual to qualify, and if the punishment is being administered in all prisons, it can't possibly be considered "unusual", so it gets a pass.