Dee Farmer is an expert and legal consultant. A legend in the transgender rights movement. She was the first transgender petitioner to have a case accepted by the United States Supreme Court. In 1994, her landmark case, the unanimous Farmer v. Brennan decision, established that prisoners have a right to be protected from harm and that prisons are responsible for their safety. The case stems from the rape she suffered at a maximum security federal prison, where she had been placed despite being 19 years old and having begun the processes and procedures of expressing as a transgender woman. Farmer v. Brennan has been and continues to be cited by thousands of courts and relied upon by prisoners and petitioners. It was also foundational to the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003.