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| Attorneys: Transgender inmate's surgery order will stand |
| By bostonherald.com |
| Published: 02/24/2016 |
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Attorneys for a recently paroled transgender inmate said Tuesday that California has agreed to drop its challenge to a court order that could have provided her with state-paid sex reassignment surgery. The settlement won't help Michelle-Lael Norsworthy, who was released from prison in August. But her attorneys said the settlement means that an earlier ruling by U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar of San Francisco will stay on the books as a legal precedent that could help other transgender inmates nationwide. In April, Tigar ordered the state to provide Norsworthy with the surgery. It was just the second time that any judge in the United States directed a state prison system to provide the operation, and the previous order in a Massachusetts case was overturned. Read More. |
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