A closet within a closet

coloradoindependent.com – Susan Greene

Unique Taylor doesn’t officially exist.

That’s because the 37-year-old, convicted for a drug-manufacturing conspiracy, is trapped, quite literally, in two of the most extreme ways possible. Taylor lives in solitary confinement at ADX, the federal supermax in Florence, Colorado, known as the tightest security prison on the planet. And she’s a transgender woman – stuck within the body of a man and unable to transition out of the sex she was assigned at birth but, she says, isn’t and never has been her own.