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| Transgender Inmate Seeks Hormone Therapy After Georgia Authorities Deny Special Treatment |
| By christiantimes.com |
| Published: 04/07/2015 |
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The U.S. Department of Justice filed a statement of interest last Friday with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia regarding a transgender prisoner who filed a case after prison officials refused to let her undergo hormone therapy to remedy her deep sense of dissatisfaction with her own gender, a condition called gender dysphoria. Prisoner Ashley Diamond, 36, alleged that the Georgia Department of Corrections violated the Eighth Amendment by withholding treatment for her gender dysphoria against the advice and recommendations of her treating clinicians. She said the corrections department withheld the treatment because of Georgia's "freeze-frame" policy which prohibits assessment and treatment of individuals with gender dysphoria. "Instead, prisoners may only receive the same level of care they received in the community," according to the document filed by the justice department. "Under GDOC's policy, if an inmate is not identified as transgender and referred for treatment at intake, he or she may receive no treatment at all." Read More. |
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