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| Arkansas inmate who performed self-castration loses court appeal on gender reassignment |
| By therepublic.com- Claudia Lauer |
| Published: 12/18/2015 |
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LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas — A federal court on Thursday rejected an appeal from an Arkansas inmate who sought gender reassignment hormones to transition to a woman and attempted to perform self-castration by cutting off both testicles. A panel of the 8th U.S. Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that the Department of Correction could not be sued for denying the inmate's request for gender reassignment treatment. The majority opinion said numerous mental health professionals had evaluated Andrew Reid, who identified as a woman, and had not diagnosed the inmate with a gender identity disorder. Reid represented herself in the lawsuit claiming that Eighth Amendment rights requiring adequate medical care had been violated. According to the court record and a handwritten affidavit in the complaint, Reid attempted self-castration in February 2013. Doctors were able to save one testicle, but during recovery Reid severed the remaining testicle and underwent emergency surgery. Read More. |
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