Proven Innocent
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You have to understand, things were different back then. A lot of gay people saw trans people as holding us back from equal rights. Straight people saw them as freaks and so did some of us.
Thomas
Bar Owner: The cops saw them walking down the street, would put them in handcuffs for prostitution.
Maddie: Their crime was walking while trans.
Easy: In my community, we call it walking while black.
Bar Owner: Now imagine being both trans and black.
This isn't freedom. Your life isn't your own. I know being free is scary, but it is your right because you are innocent. And one day, maybe two or three years from now, you'll wake up with tears in your eyes because your life is your own.
Maddie
Prison is a hopeless place. We just need to give her hope.
Maddie
Busch: Madeline Scott is not on your level. She's a murderer.
Bellows: You really believe that?
Busch: I do.
Bellows: So I should ignore her?
Busch: Unless you have new evidence of her guilt. Then you would win in a landslide.
Bellows: Re-charge her with murder?
Busch: Only if you have new evidence.
The real torture was when I had to live at Steve. That was torture every day. And it's coming back if I don't get my hormones.
Cindy
Imagine you are looking at yourself in the mirror. It sounds like you and it looks like you, but deep down you know this isn't your true self. On this week's episode of Until Proven Innocent, we examine what happens when one dares to finally live that truth despite knowing there are those in the world will hate you for it.
Violet
I was friends with a trans man in prison. Taking away his testosterone would have been like taking away his existence.
Maddie
It takes them two seconds to lock someone up and an eternity to admit they're wrong.
Maddie
There's so much information people know, but the streets aren't talking.
Ray
Devon: I'm gonna die right here behind this.
Maddie: Devon. I don't know what it's like to be on death row, but I know what it's like to be hopeless. I was eight years in, nothing but bars in front of me. All I had was my truth. I DIDN'T DO THIS.
You don't see it, do you? You don't care about me. You just show up when you want to be the hero.
Levi
