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| Texas Prisons Expand Hormone Therapy Treatment To More Transgender Inmates |
| By thinkprogress.org- Carimah Townes |
| Published: 02/09/2016 |
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Nearly one year after the Department of Justice confirmed that denying hormone therapy for transgender people in prison is cruel and unusual punishment, Texas just loosened its strict guidelines for who could receive the treatment. Texas’ Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) policy now allows prisoners to receive hormone therapy behind bars, even though they weren’t undergoing therapy prior to their incarceration. Until last week, TDCJ only provided the treatment plan for inmates who went through hormone therapy before they were locked up. Now, any prisoner who is diagnosed with gender dysphoria — “clinically significant distress or impairment that is associated with the marked incongruence between one’s experienced or expressed gender and one’s assigned gender” — can qualify for the treatment. Hormone therapy typically includes estrogen for trans women and testosterone for trans men. TDCJ’s altered its policy in accordance with the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) updated classification of gender dysphoria, which is now considered a diagnosable condition. The change marks a small breakthrough for the state’s 212 transgender prisoners, but there are still many hoops they have to jump through in order to receive the hormones. Read More. |
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