N.C. trans prisoner settles federal suit
News Notes: Beyond the Carolinas
by David Stout | Associate Editor
October 15, 2011
http://goqnotes.com/12927/nc-trans-prisoner-settles-federal-suit/BUTNER, N.C. — A settlement has been reached in the case of Vanessa Adams, a Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) inmate at FMC Butner, who has gender identity disorder (GID). Adams sued BOP in order to receive appropriate treatment for her GID.
Adam's challenge to BOP's treatment of trans prisoners has resulted in BOP ending its so-called "freeze frame" policy in which treatment for any person with GID is kept frozen at the level provided at the time he or she entered the federal prison system. In Adams' case, this meant that because she had not received treatment for GID before being incarcerated, BOP refused to provide her with medically necessary care even though its own doctors diagnosed her with GID, told her about treatments available for GID, and knew about the seriousness of her medical condition.
