The court finds, however, that the widespread medical consensus is that gender-affirming surgery is a medically necessary form of care for some individuals with gender dysphoria...it is appropriate for the court to order at this point that this surgery be provided to her at the earliest opportunity. This relief is narrowly drawn, extends no further than necessary to correct the violation of Ms. Cordellioné's constitutional rights, and is the least intrusive means available and necessary to correct this ongoing violation.
Judge Richard Young of the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Indiana mandated that Cordellioné specifically receive such care, concluding that it was an Eighth Amendment violation for being "cruel and unusual punishment" by denying essential health care and a Fourteenth Amendment violation by denying equal protection under the law on the basis of sex.
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