Utah corrections department discriminated against transgender woman, DOJ says

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Utah corrections department discriminated against transgender woman, DOJ says

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Story by Brooke Migdon (13 March 2024)

The Utah Department of Corrections violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) when it failed to provide a transgender woman with her hormone therapy, the Justice Department said Tuesday.

The state corrections department discriminated against the woman, who is not named in court documents, by denying her equal access to health care services, imposing "unnecessary barriers" to treatment for gender dysphoria and failing to grant her requests for reasonable accommodations, including allowing her to purchase female clothing and makeup at the commissary, a federal investigation found.

Utah's corrections department also "unnecessarily delayed" the woman's treatment for her gender dysphoria, a condition with which she had "for many years" before entering the department's custody in 2021, according to the Department of Justice's (DOJ) findings.

The woman's psychological distress worsened while she was incarcerated in a men's prison...