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Seventh Circuit Tells Wisconsin Probationer with Gender Dysphoria how to Proceed
Loaded on Jan. 10, 2017
by Matthew Clarke
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2017, page 57
Filed under:
Failure to Treat,
Probation,
Transgender,
Transgender Medical Procedures,
Discrimination (Transgender).
Location:
Wisconsin.
On December 23, 2015, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed the appeal of a Wisconsin probationer with gender dysphoria who was denied a preliminary injunction to allow her to move from a men’s homeless shelter to her mother’s house and to dress as a woman in public. In doing ...
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