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| Judge OKs transgender inmate's hormone treatments |
| By ledger-enquirer.com- Andrew Welsh-Huggins |
| Published: 04/03/2014 |
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — State prison officials must immediately resume hormone treatments for a transgender inmate who argued that she suffered a medical setback including facial hair growth and depression when her treatments stopped, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday. Antione Lee, who goes by Whitney Lee, had undergone continuous hormone therapy since 1999 until the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction abruptly halted the treatments in February 2012, according to federal court complaints. She is housed with men at Mansfield Correctional Institution, where she is serving a three-year sentence on forgery and theft charges out of Hamilton County. Read More. |
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