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Idaho Provides Nation’s Second Gender Confirmation Surgery for Transgender Prisoner

Loaded on Sept. 30, 2022 by Mark Wilson published in Prison Legal News October, 2022, page 36
Filed under: Transgender Medical Procedures. Location: Idaho.

by Mark Wilson

“I feel whole and connected in myself.”

That’s what transgender Idaho prisoner Adree Edmo had to say after receiving gender confirmation surgery (GCS) in July 2020, just under a year after a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit cleared the way. Edmo, ...

 

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