Trans inmates win right to gender-affirming care as judge calls it "a serious medical need" - LGBTQ Nation

"The Court finds that there is no genuine dispute of fact that gender dysphoria is a serious medical need,"

"Plaintiffs, through their experts, have presented evidence that a blanket ban on hormone therapy constitutes grossly inadequate care for gender dysphoria and risks imminent injury."

"We would never allow a state to decide that people in prison with diabetes should be cut off of insulin just because the state didn't want to pay for it anymore,"

Judge Victoria Calvert enjoined Georgia’s ban on gender-affirming care for incarcerated people, concluding the blanket prohibition violated the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. The judge found gender dysphoria to be a serious medical need and determined that a categorical ban on hormone therapy constitutes grossly inadequate care and risks imminent injury. Senate Bill 185, signed in May, barred state funds and resources for hormone replacement therapy, sex reassignment surgeries, and cosmetic procedures to alter sexual characteristics, and prevented trans inmates from paying for such care themselves. Five plaintiffs filed suit asserting Eighth Amendment and Equal Protection claims.

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