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Transgender Women in Illinois DOC Secure Injunction with Special Monitor by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian Transgender women imprisoned in the Illinois Department of Corrections (DOC) notched another victory in their legal battle for gender dysphoria treatment on December 13, 2021, when the U.S. District Court for the Southern …
Colorado Supreme Court Holds Governor Is Appropriate Defendant in Cases Involving State Constitutional Responsibility by The Colorado Supreme Court has decided “that the Governor is an appropriate defendant in cases involving ‘his constitutional responsibility to uphold laws of the state and to oversee Colorado’s executive agencies.’” The Court’s February 1, …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Fifth Circuit Holds Defendants Entitled to Sovereign Immunity For Denial of Sex-Reassignment Surgery to Texas Prisoner by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On July 30, 2021, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit vacated orders denying sovereign immunity to some defendants in a lawsuit brought by a …
Tay Tay v. Baldwin, IL, Settlement, Transgender Discrimination, 2021 Information Sheet for Case Number Official Case# Case# 19-501 Tay Tay #R12529 v. Baldwin, et al. 19-CV-501 Plaintiffs: Opposing Counsel: Institutions: IDOC# Filed Received 5/14/19 5/ 17 /19 Case Name Defendants: Date Served Status closed Class Action D On Appeal D …
Campbell v. Kallas, WI, Injunction Order, Transgender Medical Rights, 2020 Case: 3:16-cv-00261-jdp Document #: 149 Filed: 12/22/20 Page 1 of 3 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN MARK A. CAMPBELL, a/k/a NICOLE ROSE CAMPBELL, Plaintiff, Case No. 16-cv-261-jdp v. KEVIN KALLAS et al., Defendant. INJUNCTION ORDER 1. Plaintiff …
Tate v. Wexford Health, IL, Settlement, Transgender Medical Rights, 2020 Information Sheet for Case Number Case# Official Case# 16-92 SD 16-CV-92 Institutions : Filed Received Tate, Carl #R12529 v. Wexford Health Source Inc., et al. 12/07 /15 Plaintiffs: Opposing Counsel: Case Name IDOC# Defendants: Date Served Status 2/29/16 Class Action …
Cochran v. Hinton, IL, Settlement, Transgender Medical Rights, 2020 t UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION ROY RA YB URN COCHRAN, Plaintiff, ) ) ) ) ) V. MELVIN HINTON, et al., Defendants. Case No. 19-cv-02712 Honorable Judge Elaine E. Bucklo ) ) ) …
Cochran v. Hinton, IL, Complaint, Transgender Medical Rights, 2019 Case: 1:19-cv-02712 Document#: 23 Filed: 11118/19 Page 1 of 20 PagelD #:87 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS ROY RAYBURN COCHRAN, JR., Plaintiff, V. MELVIN HINTON, J.B. PRITZKER, ROBERT JEFFERYS, STEVE MEEKS, Defendants. ) ) …
Article • July 2, 2019 • from PLN July, 2019
Fifth Circuit Holds Transgender Prisoner Not Entitled to Sex Reassignment Surgery by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke  In a 23-page opinion issued on March 29, 2019, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) did not violate the Eighth Amendment by refusing to provide …
Tay Tay v. Baldwin, IL, Complaint, Transgender Discrimination, 2019 Case 3:19-cv-00501 Document 1 Filed 05/14/19 Page 1 of 24 Page ID #1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS ToYToY ) ) ) ) Plaintiff, V. ) Case No. ) JOHN BALDWIN, WARDEN JEFF DENNISON, …
Florida Prisoner’s Gender Dysphoria Requires Hormone Therapy, Social Transitioning Treatment by Following a bench trial, on August 22, 2018 a Florida federal district court held that state prison officials were deliberately indifferent to transgender prisoner Reiyn Keohane’s serious medical condition of gender dysphoria. The court said the denial of hormone …
More Legal Cases Involving Transgender Prisoners in Multiple States by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), about 34 percent of transgender people held in prisons or jails reported being subjected to at least one incident of sexual violence while incarcerated. That’s eight times …
National Center for Transgender Equality - LGBTQ People Behind Bars - A Guide to Understanding the Issues Facing Transgender Prisoners and Their Legal Rights, 2018 LGBTQ PEOPLE BEHIND BARS A GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING THE ISSUES FACING TRANSGENDER PRISONERS AND THEIR LEGAL RIGHTS National Center for TRANSGENDER EQUALITY This is a …
Article • July 22, 2018
Seventh Circuit Permits Gender Dysphoria Federal Civil Rights Case to Proceed by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned the district court’s dismissal of a federal civil rights case under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, brought by a former prisoner in the Wisconsin Department of …
TRO Requires Pennsylvania Jail to Provide Hormone Treatment by A Pennsylvania federal district court issued a temporary restraining order on July 7, 2017 that required the Lackawanna County Prison (LCP) to provide hormone drugs to treat a transgender prisoner diagnosed with gender dysphoria. Steven Fritz, who identifies as Sparkle Wilson, …
Brief • July 7, 2017
Wilson v. Lackawanna County, PA, Complaint, Trans Hormone Therapy, 2017 ·''. ' i;• ·; Case 3:17-cv-01191-RDM Document 1 Filed 07/07/17 Page 1 of 15 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA SPARKLES WILSON a/k/a STEVEN FRITZ 1371 N . WASHINGTON AVENUE SCRANTON, PA 18509 PLAINTIFF v. CIVIL …
Brief • July 7, 2017
Wilson v. Lackawanna County, PA, Temporary Restraining Order, Trans Hormone Therapy, 2017 .. Case 3:17-cv-01191-RDM Document 2 Filed 07/07/17 Page 1 of 3 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA SPARKLES WILSON a/k/a STEVEN FRITZ 1371 N. WASHINGTON AVENUE SCRANTON, PA 18509 PLAINTIFF CIVIL ACTION - LAW …
California Pays for Transgender Prisoner’s Sex Reassignment Surgery by Joe Watson by Joe Watson The rights of transgender prisoners are in the throes of a major transition. In August 2015, California’s Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) made the unprecedented decision to pay for sex reassignment surgery (SRS) for Shiloh …
Seventh Circuit Tells Wisconsin Probationer with Gender Dysphoria how to Proceed by Matthew Clarke 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 …
Gender Outlaws: Transgender Prisoners Face Discrimination, Harassment and Abuse by by Emily Alpert, Oakland, California In Idaho, prisoner Linda Patricia Thompson wanted a transfer to a women's prison. A male-to-female transgender woman, or MTF, she had been living as a woman for several years, had changed her name legally, and …
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