Sex Reassignment Surgery

After Sandra MacDougall said abuse, attacks and a threat to set her on fire had ruined her life, she was inundated with messages of support.

Imprisoned whistleblower Chelsea Manning ended her hunger strike after the Army agreed to provide medically prescribed treatment for her gender dysphoria.

“I really wanted to be a girl,” revealed the actor, but that by the time he was “15 I never wanted to be a woman again.”

The move comes after a petition by two transgender veterans seeking to have the ban on surgery lifted.

Gender reassignment surgery “is not something to be entered into lightly.”

To qualify, prisoners must be diagnosed with what is formally known as gender dysphoria and lived as their identified gender for at least 12 months.

Gov. Jerry Brown will decide whether Michelle-Lael Norsworthy should be released 30 years after she fatally shot 26-year-old Franklin Gordon Liefer Jr.

The separate decisions make it less likely that convicted killer Michelle-Lael Norsworthy will receive prison-funded sex reassignment surgery before she is released.

State officials say 51-year-old Michelle-Lael Norsworthy has postponed her parole hearing several times with the hope of having the surgery.

The state has asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for a stay as it appeals the San Francisco-based judge’s order.

Officials want a federal appeals court to block a judge’s order that the state immediately provide a transgender prisoner with sex reassignment surgery.

The court rejected an appeal from a convicted murderer who has been seeking taxpayer-funded sex-reassignment surgery in prison.

U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar made his ruling in response to a request by state corrections officials, who also have appealed to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

California’s corrections department said Friday that it will appeal a federal judge’s order that it immediately provide a transgender inmate with sex-reassignment surgery.

Elton John and Michael Stipe are calling for the equal rights of transgender inmates following claims that a transgender woman was mistreated at a Georgia prison.

A federal judge on Thursday ordered California’s corrections department to provide a transgender inmate with sex reassignment surgery, the first time such an operation has been ordered in the state.

A federal judge in 2012 ordered the Massachusetts Department of Correction to grant the surgery to Michelle Kosilek, but that ruling was overturned in December by the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

The Alberta government is making it easier for transgender people in the province to make changes to their personal documents without undergoing sex reassignment surgery.

Mika Inoue was in college when she faced some of the scariest threats against her life as a transgender woman. Now, at age 25, she hopes to avoid those situations by getting a new birth certificate that confirms with her gender identity, without undergoing surgery.

The University of Colorado expects to soon begin covering the cost of transition surgery for transgender faculty and staff when new insurance plans take effect on July 1.