Monday, 5 April 2010
A Small Victory in Wisconsin
Zoe Brain
http://aebrain.blogspot.com/2010/04/small-victory-in-wisconsin.htmlAs I've blogged about before, the Wisconsin Inmate Sex Change Prevention Act is one of the more odious pieces of legislation. The prison rules prevent prisoners from paying for their own treatment, and any medication that they obtain has to be through the prison system, otherwise it's confiscated as contraband.
This means that trans prisoners on prescribed hormonal medication have it discontinued. With the predictable results.
From the Washington Post:
Some of the plaintiffs had been on hormones for years before the law was passed. They included Andrea Fields, who had taken hormones since 1996. Before the law was blocked, the inmate's hormone dosage was cut in half, which led to nausea, weakness, loss of appetite and hair growth, according to court records.
