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| Transsexual inmates can receive estrogen therapy |
| By Times-Dispatch |
| Published: 09/27/2004 |
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Transsexual Virginia prison inmates may receive estrogen therapy and other treatment under a recent court settlement of a prisoner's suit. Experts say that transsexuals who have gender identity disorder, or GID, feel that they are members of the opposite sex trapped in the wrong body. It is not a voluntary condition, and transsexuals are different from homosexuals and transvestites who remain content with their birth sex. The eight-page agreement does not specify the treatments the Virginia Department of Corrections will provide in appropriate cases. However, it does provide for referrals to an endocrinologist, or hormone specialist, when necessary. Victor M. Glasberg, an Alexandria lawyer who handled the case for the American Civil Liberties Union and confirmed the settlement, said last week that each case of GID is different and that there is a wide spectrum of treatment, which can include surgery. However, Timothy Murtaugh, spokesman for Attorney General Jerry W. Kilgore, said last week that "the commonwealth of Virginia is not in the business of changing men into women." |
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