Comment on In Saco murder case, York County Jail faces issue of housing transgender suspect

When Connor MacCalister arrived at the York County Jail last week on charges of murdering a woman in a Saco supermarket, jail officials faced a decision about where to house him. MacCalister, 31, was born Tanisha Hopkins, a woman, but changed his name and has identified as a male for more than 10 years, family members said. For York County Sheriff William King, that meant determining whether MacCalister should be housed in the female unit or the male unit. “We were concerned about other inmates.