'All of these things could have gotten you arrested if you were perceived as the 'wrong kind of woman.'' 'Drunkenness, waywardism, disobedience to their parents, being out at night by themselves, wearing pants, accepting a date from a man, accepting a ride from a man,' Ryan says. Author Hugh Ryan says that in many cases, the prisoners were charged with crimes related to gender-nonconforming behavior. In New York City, in the 20th century, tens of thousands of women and transmasculine people were incarcerated at the so-called House of D, a brutal women's prison that opened in Greenwich Village in 1932. She was taken from FBI headquarters to the Women's House of Detention.
Listen Angela Davis is escorted by two FBI agents after her arrest in New York on Oct.
