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Federal judge rules California transgender inmates must get some female items
By foxnews.com
Published: 06/10/2016

A federal judge ruled Thursday that California prison officials must let transgender inmates have more female-oriented commissary items including nightgowns, robes, sandals, scarves and necklaces as part of a settlement that will make the stat the first to pay for an inmate’s sex reassignment surgery.

California agreed in August to provide some items to transgender inmates who are housed in male prisons, aside from providing surgery to 56-year-old Shiloh Quine.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Nandor Vadas decided that the policy didn’t go far enough. He said transgender inmates housed in men’s prisons should have many of the same items provided to female inmates.

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