Transgender Prisoners Deserve Surgery

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Transgender Prisoners Deserve Surgery

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/25/transgender-prisoners-deserve-surgery.html

The Daily Beast/By Samantha Allen    02.24.16 11:01 PM ET

"Transgender Americans have seen slow but steady progress in health insurance coverage for sex reassignment surgery. Unless they're in prison.

"That could change soon thanks to the Transgender Law Center and former California inmate Michelle Norsworthy, a transgender woman who was released from a 28-year prison term last year.

On Tuesday, Norsworthy settled a longstanding dispute with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), leaving in place an April 2015 federal district court ruling that ordered the state to cover her sex reassignment surgery (SRS). As part of the settlement deal, the state of California will drop its request to vacate that ruling."