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Connecticut DOC Held Liable for Failure to Treat Transgender Prisoner’s Gender Dysphoria
Loaded on April 1, 2024
by Douglas Ankney
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2024, page 56
Filed under:
Failure to Treat,
Failure to Treat (Mental Illness),
Transgender,
Transgender Medical Procedures,
Discrimination (Transgender).
Location:
Connecticut.
Douglas Ankney
On September 15, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut granted a transexual prisoner’s motion for summary judgment in a suit accusing the state Department of Correction (DOC) of violating her Eighth Amendment rights by failing to treat her gender dysphoria (GD).
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