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Transexuals Entitled to Treatment
Loaded on March 15, 1996
published in Prison Legal News
March, 1996, page 19
The court of appeals for the tenth circuit has held that transsexual prisoners state a cause of action under the eighth amendment when they are not provided with any medical treatment by prison officials. The court also held that parties must be given notice when a lower court converts a …
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