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The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum was a psychiatric hospital located in Weston, West Virginia and known by other names such as West Virginia Hospital for the Insane and Weston State Hospital. The asylum was open to patients from October 1864 until May 1994.
Thomas Story Kirkbride (July 31, 1809 – December 16, 1883) was a physician, alienist, and hospital superintendent for the Institute of the Pennsylvania Hospital, and primary founder of the Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane (AMSAII), the organizational precursor to the American Psychiatric Association.
Kenyon Jones confessed to the murder, telling police that he had paid Pierson for sex, and after he found out she was transgender, he killed her in anger. [ 54 ] [ 55 ] He was convicted of second degree murder and armed criminal action, and was sentenced to 30 years in jail.
James Dixon, 26, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for manslaughter in the death of 21-year-old transgender woman Islan Nettles.. On August 17, 2013, Dixon flirted with Nettles during an ...
A suspect is facing murder and other charges after the remains of a transgender teen who had been missing in Pennsylvania since late June were found in a lake, according to a criminal complaint.
Danville State Hospital for the mentally ill, located one mile (1.6 km) southeast of Danville, Pennsylvania, opened in 1872 as the "State Hospital for the Insane at Danville".
So far in 2024, more than 600 bills labeled “anti-trans” by the research organization Trans Legislation Tracker were introduced in 43 states and federally, 45 of which have passed, Trans ...
Twelve-year-old ConaLee has been the adult in her family for as long as she can remember. She and her mother, Eliza, who has not spoken in over a year, are on a journey in a buckboard. They are brought to the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia by a war veteran who has forced himself into their lives.