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Title: Judge rejects state bid to stop hormone therapy for transgender inmate
Post by: katia on September 11, 2007, 08:54:58 PM
Judge rejects state bid to stop hormone therapy for transgender inmate


TheOlympian.com (http://www.theolympian.com/northwest/story/214758.html)
By Rebecca Boone
Published: September 11, 2007


' BOISE, Idaho — An Idaho inmate who castrated herself after prison officials refused to give her female hormone therapy may have lied about her lifestyle before imprisonment, but the state still must give her estrogen, a federal judge has ruled.'