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Title: Federal Lawsuit Challenges Wisconsin Anti-Transgender Law
Post by: Chaunte on October 23, 2007, 05:14:53 PM
Federal Lawsuit Challenges Wisconsin Anti-Transgender Law
by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff

(Milwaukee, Wisconsin) A Wisconsin law that bars the state from paying for gender reassignment surgery for prison inmates violates the US Constitution a federal judge was told Monday.

Lambda Legal and the ACLU are suing the state on behalf of five transgender women incarcerated in Wisconsin.

http://www.365gay.com/Newscon07/10/102207wit.htm (http://www.365gay.com/Newscon07/10/102207wit.htm)
Title: Federal Lawsuit Challenges Wisconsin Anti-Transgender Law
Post by: katia on October 24, 2007, 02:27:11 AM
Federal Lawsuit Challenges Wisconsin Anti-Transgender Law

http://www.365gay.com/Newscon07/10/102207wit.htm
by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff
10/22/2007

'(Milwaukee, Wisconsin) A Wisconsin law that bars the state from paying for gender reassignment surgery for prison inmates violates the US Constitution a federal judge was told Monday.
Lambda Legal and the ACLU are suing the state on behalf of five transgender women incarcerated in Wisconsin.'