In Pichardo's handwritten complaint to the corrections department, she says: “I feel offended because they have offended my integrity as a woman ...
doubting me if I have changed my sex and (I) take off my clothes many times and ask me why I have done it."
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(I'm) telling them no. (They're) causing my pressure to elevate, because I was taken to a male jail and I'm a woman. I had to enter the same bathroom. Nobody has abused me physically but psychologically yes," Pichardo said.
Guards housed her with the male inmates at the Metro West facility near Doral. As to how this could have happened, one investigating officer writes that: "inmate Pichardo was medically screened during the initial intake process.
Due to inmate Pichardo's non-traditional male characteristics he is classified as a PREA (special cell) candidate. Pichardo was evaluated by medical staff nurse H. It was determined that ...Pichardo has male sexual reproductive organs."
That was Pichardo was telling guards and the medical staff all along. From her writings,
the woman made clear to the guards here that she hasn't gone through any sex change procedures and the reports don't show them making any mention of Picardo altering her gender.
I'm lost as hell