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Article • May 15, 2011 • from PLN May, 2011
Wisconsin DOC Settles Transgender Prisoner’s Lawsuit by The Wisconsin Department of Corrections (WDOC) has agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by a transgender prisoner who sought treatment for her gender identity disorder. The settlement ended seven years of litigation. The suit was filed in federal court in 2003 by Scott …
Brief • May 13, 2011
Adams v. Bureau of Prisons, MA, Settlement, Transexual Prisoner Denied Medical Care, 2011 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS ) VANESSA ADAMS, legal name Nicholas Adams, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) ) v. ) FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS; FEDERAL ) BUREAU OF PRlSONS DIRECTOR HARLEY ) G. LAPPIN, in …
Brief • May 13, 2011
Adams v. BOP, Settlement Agreement, Redacted, transgender medical hormone treatment, 2011 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS ) VANESSA ADAMS, legal name Nicholas Adams, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) ) v. ) FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS; FEDERAL ) BUREAU OF PRlSONS DIRECTOR HARLEY ) G. LAPPIN, in his official …
Article • March 15, 2011
Judge Refuses to Dismiss Suit against BOP after BOP Started Hormone Therapy for Prisoner with Gender Identity Disorder by On June 7, 2010, U.S. District Judge Joseph Tauro denied a motion to dismiss filed by the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) in a suit by a prisoner suffering from Gender Identity …
Article • December 15, 2010 • from PLN December, 2010
Wisconsin Law Prohibiting Hormone Treatment for Prisoners with Gender Identity Disorder Found Unconstitutional by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On May 13, 2010, a Wisconsin federal court issued a 68-page decision holding that a Wisconsin state law prohibiting hormone therapy for prisoners with gender identity disorder (GID) was an unconstitutional …
Massachusetts Transsexual Case Proceeds to Discovery by A Massachusetts federal district has held that a prisoner who seeks a taxpayer-funded sex change has failed to prove “serious harm” by the denial of additional hair-removal treatments. The plaintiff is serving a life sentence for the murder of his wife, Cheryl, in …
Transgender Idaho Prisoner Receives Hormone Therapy Pending Trial by A federal judge has ordered the Idaho Department of Corrections (IDOC) to provide hormone therapy to a prisoner with gender identity disorder pending trial. The preliminary injunction, issued July 27, 2007, was in response to a lawsuit filed by Jennifer Spencer, …
Article • August 15, 2008
Dismissal of Colorado Transsexual Suit Reversed by The Colorado Court of Appeals reversed the dismissal of a transsexual prisoner’s lawsuit seeking treatment by a gender specialist counselor. Christopher Grey, a Colorado prisoner, suffers from gender identity disorder (a.k.a. transsexualism), and refers to himself as Crystal, Catherine Jene, and “C.J.” Grey …
Article • August 15, 2008
BOP Policy Denying Hormone Therapy to Transsexual Challenged by The Bureau of Prisons' policy requiring documentation of pre-incarceration hormone therapy before the BOP will provide hormone therapy in prison is upheld. There is a disputed factual question whether the plaintiff is similarly situated for equal protection analysis with persons who …
Transsexuals Treated Poorly in New York Prisons by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP) has issued a report on the treatment of transgender and intersex people in New York state men?s prisons. That report finds that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) prisoners experience …
California Jail Settles Gender-Identity-Disorder Discrimination Suit by John Dannenberg by John F. Dannenberg 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 …
Article • May 15, 2007
No Immunity for Denying Transsexual Prisoner Treatment under Unconstitutional Policy by No Immunity for Denying Transsexual Prisoner Treatment under Unconstitutional Policy The plaintiff, a pre-operative transsexual, tried to get treatment for gender identity disorder in prison and was ignored for two years. His grievance requested "all of the minimal, though …
Article • May 15, 2007
Pre-operative Transsexual "Deliberate Indifference" Claims Set for Trial by Pre-operative Transsexual "Deliberate Indifference" Claims Set for Trial A Federal District Court in Pennsylvania has partially denied summary judgment in a case in which a transsexual Pennsylvania prisoner claimed that prison doctors and administrators ignored serious medical needs related to gender …
Article • May 15, 2007
Cost, Political/Public Criticism Not Legitimate Concern in Denying Transsexual Medical Needs by Cost, Political/Public Criticism Not Legitimate Concern in Denying Transsexual Medical Needs This case takes on the more bizarre aspects of the Farmer v. Brennan deliberate indifference standard in a more direct way than anything I have previously seen. …
Transexual Case Remanded for Trial by The court of appeals for the Eighth circuit reversed and remanded the grant of summary judgment in favor of Iowa prison officials. Plaintiff claimed to suffer from gender dysphoria, better known as transsexualism, and demanded medical treatment which prison officials refused to provide, at …
Article • May 15, 2007
Transexualism is a Serious Medical Need by The court of appeals for the Seventh circuit held that a district court erred in dismissing, for failure to state a claim, a lawsuit by an Indiana prisoner that he was denied treatment for gender dysphoria (transsexualism). The appeals court held that gender …
FTCA Judgment Facts Suit Against U.S. Bars Bivens Action Based on Same Facts by The Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit held that a judgment in a Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) suit against the United States bars a Bivens action based on the same conduct. A transsexual former …
Article • May 15, 2007
Summary Judgment Reversed on Former Prisoner's Gender Dysphoria Claim by The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a split decision, reversed a grant of summary judgment to California prison officials in a claim brought by a former state prisoner alleging that officials were deliberately indifferent to her gender dysphoria. …
Article • May 15, 2007
TX Transsexual Prisoner's Lawsuit Seeking Hormone Therapy Dismissed by Joshua Praylor, a Texas state prisoner, sued the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) and several of its officials in federal district court after they denied his request for estrogen therapy and brassieres. He claimed, as a pre-op transsexual, that the …
Transgender Wisconsin Prisoners Continue Hormone Treatment Despite Law by Michael Rigby On January 25, 2006, a federal court in Wisconsin issued an emergency injunction to prevent the state from discontinuing hormone therapy for three transgender prisoners, despite a new state law banning the therapy. In January 2006 the Wisconsin legislature …
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