Trans people in Georgia prisons are being forced to detransition...

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Trans people in Georgia prisons are being forced to detransition. Now they're suing.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/trans-people-in-georgia-prisons-are-being-forced-to-detransition-now-they-re-suing/ar-AA1Kanlt?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=6acbf8f5d79f4b74a3a80ae5ba6aec55&ei=91

Story by Candice Norwood (8 Aug 2025)

Five transgender plaintiffs — two men and three women — brought the class action lawsuit on behalf of nearly 300 other people in Georgia state prisons, who argue that the state's law will have "catastrophic consequences." In some cases it is forcing trans people who have already received hormone replacement therapy and other services for years to detransition without their consent.

"We are very much in the thick of seeing policies like this be adopted," said Chinyere Ezie, a senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, which brought the lawsuit with co-counsel Bondurant Mixson & Elmore LLP. "It's really unfortunate, I think that it has and will cost people's lives. I think that the plan is to really just eradicate trans people from public life, to really — contrary to medicine — make the treatment of gender dysphoria a culture war, as opposed to a serious medical need that requires treatment."

In May, Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican, signed SB 185, a bill passed by the state's majority conservative legislature that prohibits the use of state funds or resources for surgery, hormone replacement therapy, cosmetic procedures and other treatments used to address gender dysphoria. The law states explicitly that incarcerated people may still receive treatments like hormone replacement therapy if they are medically necessary for conditions other than gender dysphoria.