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Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Trans BOP Prisoners Win Restraining Order Preventing Transfer to Men’s Prison, Discontinuation of Hormone Therapy Medication by David Reutter On February 4, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted three “male-to-female transgender women” imprisoned by the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) a temporary restraining order (TRO). …
Ninth Circuit Remands Transgender Idaho Prisoner’s $2.63 Million Attorney Fee Award for Recalculation— Against Bankrupt Corizon Health Successor by Transgender Idaho state prisoner Adree Edmo filed suit in 2017 seeking gender-confirming surgery. She suffered from an extreme case of gender dysphoria—a recognized medical condition—and had repeatedly attempted self-castration. As PLN …
Florida to Trans Prisoners: We’re Coming for Your Bras by The Florida Department of Corrections (DOC) incarcerates more people—nearly 87,000—than all but two other states. Yet only 100 of them have been identified as transgender and provided hormone therapy. So it was unclear what motivated the announcement of a major …
Settlement Obligates Washington DOC to Provide Gender-Affirming Care to Trans Prisoners by On October 10, 2023, a settlement was reached in a suit filed by Disability Rights Washington (DRW), a federally funded agency that advocates for the rights of people with disabilities, accusing the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) of …
Connecticut DOC Held Liable for Failure to Treat Transgender Prisoner’s Gender Dysphoria by Douglas Ankney 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 …
Brief • December 6, 2023
Doe v. Georgia Dept of Corrections, GA, Complaint, Transgender, 2023 Case 1:23-cv-05578-MLB Document 1 Filed 12/06/23 Page 1 of 85 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA JANE DOE, Plaintiff, v. GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF Civ. Case No. _________________ CORRECTIONS; COMMISSIONER TYRONE OLIVER, in his official …
Brief • December 6, 2023
Doe v. Georgia Dept of Corrections, GA, Motion for Preliminary Injunction, Transgender, 2023 Case 1:23-cv-05578-MLB Document 2 Filed 12/06/23 Page 1 of 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA JANE DOE, Civ. No. Plaintiff, v. GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS et al., Defendants. PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR PRELIMINARY …
Brief • December 6, 2023
Doe v. Georgia Dept of Corrections, GA, Memorandum of Law in Support of Motion for Prelim Injunction, Transgender, 2023 Case 1:23-cv-05578-MLB Document 2-1 Filed 12/06/23 Page 1 of 39 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA JANE DOE, Civ. No. Plaintiff, v. GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, et …
Tennessee Private Prison Gets State’s First LGBTQ+ Group by As reported in Filter Magazine on July 26, 2023, Tennessee’s South Central Correctional Facility (SCCF) has become the birthplace of “Be the Change” (BTC), the first known openly LGBTQ+ community in any of the state’s 14 prisons. A private medium-security prison …
Disability Rights Washington v. Washington State Dept of Corrections, WA, Complaint, Transgender-Denial of Medical-Mental Care, 2023 Case 2:23-cv-01553 Document 1 Filed 10/11/23 Page 1 of 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT SEATTLE 7 8 DISABILITY RIGHTS WASHINGTON, 9 Plaintiff, 10 …
Disability Rights Washington v. Washington State Dept of Corrections, WA, Settlement, Transgender-Denial of Medical-Mental Care, 2023 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT I. INTRODUCTION A. This Agreement has been reached by Disability Rights Washington (DRW) (Plaintiff) and the Washington Department of Corrections with Cheryl Strange in her official capacity as the Secretary of the …
Brief • September 15, 2023
Clark v. Quiros, CT, Memorandum of Decision on Cross Motions for Summary Judgment, Transgender-Failure to Provide Care, 2023 Case 3:19-cv-00575-VLB Document 194 Filed 09/15/23 Page 1 of 73 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT VERONICA-MAY (Neé Nicholas) Clark Plaintiff, v. ANGEL QUIROS, DR. GERALD VALLETTA, RICHARD BUSH, AND BARBARA …
Article • March 1, 2023 • from PLN March, 2023
Transgender Idaho Prisoner Who Won Gender Conforming Surgery Awarded Over $2.6 Million in Legal Fees by Eike Blohm, MD by Eike Blohm, MD On September 30, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho awarded $2,631,593 in attorneys fees and expenses to a former state prisoner, who successfully …
Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023
Federal Judge in Pennsylvania Rules BOP Must Honor Transgender Prisoner’s Legal Name Change by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian On July 19, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania granted the motion of a transgender federal prisoner and compelled the U.S. Bureau of Prisons (BOP) …
Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023
Fourth Circuit Says Prisoners with Gender Dysphoria not Excluded from ADA Protection by Harold Hempstead by Harold Hempstead On August 16, 2022, in a question of first impression for federal appellate courts, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held that the complaint of a Virginia jail detainee …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
Federal Judge Calls Out BOP’s ‘Plinko’ Tactics, Orders Surgeon Found for Trans Prisoner’s Gender-Confirming Procedure by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett On April 18, 2022, after finding the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) “employed tactics similar to the game of Plinko on The Price is Right,” an exasperated federal judge …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
Idaho Provides Nation’s Second Gender Confirmation Surgery for Transgender Prisoner by Mark Wilson 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 …
Brief • September 30, 2022
Edmo v. Idaho DOC, ID, Memo Decision and Order, Transgender (Surgery), 2022 Case 1:17-cv-00151-BLW Document 323 Filed 09/30/22 Page 1 of 39 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF IDAHO ADREE EDMO, Case No. 1:17-cv-00151-BLW Plaintiff, MEMORANDUM DECISION AND ORDER v. IDAHO DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION, et al., Defendants. INTRODUCTION …
Publication • August 15, 2022
First Report of the Task Force on Issues Faced by TGNCNBI People in Custody-Aug. 2022 First Report of the Task Force on Issues Faced by TGNCNBI People in Custody August 15, 2022 Authored by Ashe McGovern, Deborah Lolai, Dori Lewis, Kandra Clark, Mik Kinkead, and Shéár Avory. ______________________________________________________________________________ The authors …
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
BOP Greenlights Sex Reassignment Surgery for Federal Prisoner in Texas by Matthew Clarke Wisconsin DOC Ordered to Provide the Surgery, Too by Matt Clarke and Chuck Sharman In a federal court filing on January 31, 2022, the U.S. Bureau of Prisons (BOP) indicated that a transgender prisoner in Texas could …
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