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9th August 2011

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Court Strikes Down Wisconsin Law Prohibiting Medical Treatment for Transgender Prisoners →

This is wonderful. From the ACLU, posting at Pam’s House Blend:

The 2005 Wisconsin law at the heart of this case was called the “Inmate Sex Change Prevention Act,” and barred prison doctors from prescribing hormone therapy or surgery to transgender prisoners. The ACLU, in partnership with Lambda Legal, sued and got a preliminary ruling that any prisoners already on hormone therapy could continue their treatments. Last spring, the federal trial court struck down the law in its entirety, and last Friday, the federal appeals court agreed. Wisconsin argued that the law was constitutional because the state still provided some treatment — psychological counseling and antidepressants — for transgender people.

The appeals court was having none of it:

“Surely, had the Wisconsin legislature passed a law that…inmates with cancer must be treated only with therapy and pain killers, this court would have no trouble concluding that the law was unconstitutional. Refusing to provide effective treatment for a serious medical condition serves no valid penological purpose and amounts to torture.”

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    so something in Wisconsin is going right. “amounts to torture.” I wish more health care providers saw it that way.
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    TW for cissupremacist horribleness...Yay for making the government not be a total fucking...
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