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In this Dec. 10, 2013 an inmate wears his special purple wrist band in a new unit in the Harris County Jail for gay, bisexual and transgender inmates in Houston. Harris County, the third-largest in the country which processes some 125,000 inmates annually, is one of many around the country implementing changes to the way it treats its gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender population. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)
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In this Dec. 10, 2013 file photo a prisoner leans against a bed frame in a new unit in the Harris County Jail for gay, bisexual and transgender inmates in Houston. Legislation taking effect on July 1, 2018, in Connecticut will give transgender inmates in that state the legal right to be housed in a prison that matches the gender with which they identify. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan) **FILE**
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In this Dec. 10, 2013, photo inmates hang out on their bunks in a new unit in the Harris County Jail for gay, bisexual and transgender inmates in Houston. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)
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In this Dec. 10, 2013 photo Tyniehsa Stephens checks her image in a mirror in a new unit in the Harris County Jail for gay, bisexual and transgender inmates in Houston. Harris County is making changes in how they house its gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender inmates stemming from a law passed under former President George W. Bush requiring federal, state and local lockups to eliminate rape. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)
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In this Dec. 10, 2013 photo Tyniehsa Stephens visits with cellmates in a new unit in the Harris County Jail for gay, bisexual and transgender prisoners in Houston. Harris County is one of many jails around the country implementing changes to the way it treats its gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender population based on new rules that say it is discriminatory, as well as potentially unsafe, to house people based on sexual orientation and gender. Now they hope to house inmates based on where they will be safest, and consider gender identity when making that decision. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)
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Rep. Steve Hickey, R-Sioux Falls, asks a South Dakota legislative committee on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014, in Pierre, S.D., to pass a bill that would protect clergy who refuse to take part in gay marriages. The Senate Judiciary Committee defeated the bill. (AP Photo/Chet Brokaw)
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In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, a truck carries U.N. supplies at the besieged refugee camp of Yarmouk on the southern edge of the Syrian capital of Damascus, Syria, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014. The U.N. says 600 food parcels were distributed in the camp where activists say at least 85 people have died as a result of lack of food and medicine since mid-2013. (AP Photo/SANA)
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In this Friday, April 19, 2013, Massachusetts State Police file photo, 19-year-old Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, bloody and disheveled with the red dot of a sniper's rifle laser sight on his head, emerges from a boat at the time of his capture by law enforcement authorities in Watertown, Mass. On Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder authorized the government to seek the death penalty in the case against Tsarnaev. (AP Photo/Massachusetts State Police, Sean Murphy, File)
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FILE - This file photo provided Friday, April 19, 2013 by the Federal Bureau of Investigation shows Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, charged with using a weapon of mass destruction in the bombings on April 15, 2013 near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. On Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder authorized the government to seek the death penalty in the case against Tsarnaev. (AP Photo/Federal Bureau of Investigation, File)
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FILE - In this June 12, 2013 file photo, transgender student Nicole Maines, center, with her father Wayne Maines, left, and brother Jonas, speaks to reporters outside the Penobscot Judicial Center in Bangor, Maine. The Maine Supreme Judicial Court ruled Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014, that Nicole Maines should have been allowed to use the bathroom of her choice in 2009 after school officials required her to use a staff bathroom instead of the girls' restroom. The high court concluded that the Orono school district's actions violated the Maine Human Rights Act, a state law that bans discrimination based on sexual orientation. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)
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Ayden Prehara, talks with his parents, Todd and Chris, in his bedroom in Fitchburg, Wis., on Jan. 3, 2014. Prehara, 16, is a transgender student, having transitioned from female to male at age 14. This June, Ayden and his parents will travel to Cleveland for what, in the transgender community, is called "top surgery." His breasts will be flattened and his chest contoured to be more typically male. He will be 17 by then, about the earliest surgeons will do such surgery. Until then, he wears an undergarment called a binder that evens out his chest. The family is setting aside about $10,000 for the surgery, which includes a week or so in a Cleveland hotel during recovery, said Chris Prehara. Insurance does not cover any of it, she said. (Associated Press/Wisconsin State Journal, John Hart)
