Prior to Schmidt's initiative, transgender inmates had not been treated with compassion at the nation's third-largest jail, case of trans widow Nikki Araguz, who was booked into the facility using her birth name and placed in a solitary cell for 20 days.
If Helen were around, I feel she would be annoyed that I’m not able to describe myself as a real ‘trans widow’ because the term has been captured hatefully by a group who regard announcing that you are trans means you have expired.
Noun: "(gender-critical feminism) a cis woman who feels her marriage ended or is at risk of ending due to her spouse coming out as a trans woman"[edit]
Another implication of the bill is that ‘trans widows’ — women whose husbands abandon their marriages to live as women — could be guilty of an offence if they don’t affirm their spouses in their new identities.
‘Trans widows’ face being trapped in loveless marriages if their spouses no longer need their permission to change gender, MPs examining proposals to change the law have been warned.