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Watertown trans woman strip-searched, probed, ridiculed by police over 2 misdemeanors, lawsuit says Updated Mar 06, 2021; Watertown, NY A Watertown transgender woman says she was strip-searched, hog-tied and had a wig ripped from her head before being anally probed during a 2017 arrest on two misdemeanors. DeAnna LeTray’s legal case has been championed by Legal Services of Central New York and the New York Civil Liberties Union. She’s now suing Watertown police, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office and several officers involved in the incident in federal court. LeTray, 54, says that police and jail deputies humiliated her simply because they couldn’t get over the fact she was born a man and had for nearly a decade identified as a woman. ....