August 5, 2011
Federal Court Upholds Transgender People's Right to Access Medical Treatment in PrisonACLU and Lambda Legal Sued to Allow Transgender Inmates to Receive Hormone Treatments
M. Dru Levasseur, Transgender Rights Attorney.
"The medical needs of transgender people don't disappear once they enter prison."
M. Dru Levasseur, Transgender Rights AttorneyCHICAGO—The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit today upheld the right of transgender people to receive medical care while they are incarcerated. The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Wisconsin and Lambda Legal had challenged a Wisconsin law that prohibited prison doctors from prescribing hormone treatment or sex reassignment surgery to transgender inmates.
http://www.lambdalegal.org/news/pr/wi_20110805_court-upholds-transgender.html
