About 50 people attended a rally in Auckland's Aotea Square today protesting the treatment of transgender inmates in New Zealand prisons.
The rally was organised after an inmate - who has been on hormone treatment to become a woman - was allegedly raped at the privately run prison in Wiri, South Auckland, last Friday.
There have been several other recent alleged incidents in which transgender inmates have been said to be threatened and abused because they were locked up with inmates of a different gender.
Lobby group No Pride in Prisons said transgender inmates needed to be kept safe and policies needed to change to ensure this happened.