Transgender Man Forced Into Female Population At Montco Correctional Facility: Suit

EAGLEVILLE, PA — A transgender man who was born female says his rights were violated at Montgomery County Correctional Facility after he was placed in the female population, according to news reports and a lawsuit filed in U.S. federal court last month.

The man, identified in court documents as John Doe, says that he has identified as male since 2010, and has legal documents identifying him as male, according to the suit.

But the prison in Eagleville refused to allow him in the male population, denied him hormone replacement therapy, gave him female underwear, and verbally harassed him, the suit states. He was also attacked by a female inmate who did not want him in the women's section.

“You were born as a female, we will put you with females,” one of the staffers told the man, according to got the Philadelphia Gay News. When he refused to shower with women, one of the officers told him “I’ll drag you into that god-damned shower," the report states.

The suit seeks $150,000 in damages along and policy changes at the prison.

The suit specifically names PrimeCare Medical Inc., which it claims did not allow him the therapy.

Montgomery County Correctional Facility had just one transgender inmate in their entire population as of June 2025, according to a recent audit of the population.

The suit seeks a jury trial in U.S. federal court in Philadelphia.