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Qualified Immunity in Transsexual Treatment Case
Loaded on July 15, 1999
published in Prison Legal News
July, 1999, page 21
In the December, 1998, issue of PLN we reported Farmer v. Hawk, 991 F. Supp. 19 (D DC 1998). Dee Farmer, a federal pre operational male to female transsexual, challenged the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) policy of not providing adequate treatment to transsexual prisoners. The district court denied the defendants' …
Filed under:
Medical,
Systemic Medical Neglect,
Qualified Immunity,
Supervisory Liability,
Transgender Medical Procedures.
Location:
Washington.
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