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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 …
Article • July 15, 2004 • from PLN July, 2004
Failure to Treat Transsexual for Self-Mutilation States Claim by The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals held the failure of prison officials to treat a prisoner for self-mutilation states an Eighth Amendment claim. The civil rights action was filed by Virginia prisoner Ophelia Azriel De'Lonta, who suffers from gender identity disorder …
$80,000 Settlement in CDC Transsexual Suit by In August 2000, the State of California settled a claim from a transsexual former prisoner that her need for hormone therapy was ignored while incarcerated by agreeing to pay her $80,000. Torey Tuesday South, 40, began her trek through the California penal system …
BOP Medical Personnel Absolutely Immune from Suit by The Second Circuit Court of Appeals held that medical personnel employed by the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) are absolutely immune from suit. Prisoner John Andrew Cuoco, a preoperative male to female transsexual, filed an action against various officials at the BOP facility …
Qualified Immunity in Transsexual Treatment Case by In the December, 1998, issue of PLN we reported Farmer v. Hawk, 991 F. Supp. 19 (D DC 1998). Dee Farmer, a federal pre operational male to female transsexual, challenged the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) policy of not providing adequate treatment to transsexual …
Article • December 15, 1998 • from PLN December, 1998
Bureau of Prisons Transsexual Policy Challenged by Bureau Of Prisons Transsexual Policy Challenged Afederal district court in the District of Columbia held that trans-sexualism is a "serious medical condition" for which prisoners have a constitutional right to treatment. Dee Farmer is a federal prisoner who sued the Bureau of Prisons …
Transgender Treatment Questioned by The court of appeals for the seventh circuit issued a ruling that prisoners suffering from gender dysphoria (i.e., transexualism) are not entitled to curative treatment under the eighth amendment. The ruling is extremely unusual in that it comes as an "advisory opinion." A long standing judicial …
Article • March 15, 1996 • from PLN March, 1996
Transexuals Entitled to Treatment by The court of appeals for the tenth circuit has held that transsexual prisoners state a cause of action under the eighth amendment when they are not provided with any medical treatment by prison officials. The court also held that parties must be given notice when …
Article • August 15, 1993 • from PLN August, 1993
Rules for Appointment of Counsel Clarified by Dee Farmer is a male to female transsexual federal prisoner. She filed suit against BOP officials claiming they were deliberately indifferent to her serious medical needs, in violation of the eighth amendment, by not providing her with medical and psychiatric treatment for her …
The Transsexual in Prison-A Focal Point by Lofofora Eva Contreras [Editors Note: Quetzala Lofofora Eva Contreras is a First Nations Transsexual Lesbian. She is a trained paralegal and from 1990-1992 was the Executive Director in California of Transsexuals In Prison, a nationwide organization of incarcerated and non-incarcerated, pre-and post-operative male …
Transsexual Wins Hormones Case by A male transsexual (born with male body by psychologically a woman) prisoner sued prison officials, claiming that denying her the opportunity to continue estrogen treatments at her own expense constituted indifference to her serious medical needs. The plaintiff had a number of surgeries ant procedures …
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