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Judge won’t delay order on inmate sex reassignment surgery
By dailyrepublic.com
Published: 04/28/2015

SACRAMENTO — A federal judge refused Monday to delay his order for California to provide sex reassignment surgery for a transgender inmate.

U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar made his ruling in response to a request by state corrections officials, who also have appealed to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

The state wanted Tigar to reconsider while it awaits a ruling from the appeals court in the case of 51-year-old Michelle-Lael Norsworthy, whose birth name is Jeffrey Bryan Norsworthy.

It’s just the second time a judge in the country has directed a state prison system to provide the surgery. The previous order in a Massachusetts case was overturned and is being appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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