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SCOTUS lets stand ruling in favor of treatment of transgender inmates


by rservenFollow for TransAction | Tue Mar 27, 2012 at 07:19 AM PDT

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/27/1078186/-SCOTUS-lets-stand-ruling-in-favor-of-treatment-of-transgender-inmates

Talk about good timing.  On Friday I published Transwomen Incarceration about the plight of transwomen in local, state and federal detention.

SCOTUS yesterday refused to take up Wisconsin's appeal of a ruling that a 2006 Wisconsin law banning medical treatment of transgender inmates violated the 8th Amendment's prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment.

It is nice to see some common sense prevailing, but why are so many state legislatures in the USA so hostile to TG people? To an outsider like me it seems almost as if they have an active desire to persecute TG folk.