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Transgender Arkansas inmate denied right to sue prison-court

Started by stephaniec, December 18, 2015, 02:20:22 PM

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December 18, 2015, 02:20:22 PM
Transgender Arkansas inmate denied right to sue prison-court

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-arkansas-transgender-idUSKBN0U109G20151218?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews

Reuters/LITTLE ROCK, Ark.  |  By Steve Barnes   12/17/2015

"A transgender Arkansas inmate in a men's prison who castrated herself cannot sue prison officials for refusing to provide hormone therapy to assist her efforts to change genders, a federal appeals court ruled on Thursday.

The court in a panel decision said Arkansas prison officials had heeded the advice of their medical professionals in declining to provide the inmate with hormone therapy and thus did not display "deliberate indifference" to her complaint, the court said."
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