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California Jail Settles Gender-Identity-Disorder Discrimination Suit
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2008
by John Dannenberg
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2008, page 31
by John F. Dannenberg
Filed under:
Staff-Prisoner Harassment,
Gay/Lesbian,
Transgender,
Transgender Medical Procedures.
Location:
California.
Orange County and its Sheriff, Michael Carona, settled a discrimination suit brought by a prisoner whom they denied treatment for Gender Identity Disorder (GID). They now provide such individuals specialized medical treatment for their disorders, educate Sheriff's staff on, and extend outreach to, the Lesbian, Gay, ...
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