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Transgender inmate asks U.S. Supreme Court to hear sex-change case
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.
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Federal lawsuit filed against Georgia DOC on behalf of transgender inmate
The Southern Poverty Law Center has filed a federal lawsuit against the Georgia Department of Corrections on behalf of a transgender inmate who attorneys allege has been denied medical treatment and has been sexually assaulted by other inmates at her men’s prison.
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Transgender inmate sues N.Y. prison over sexual assault
The federal suit, filed by the Cardozo Civil Rights Clinic on behalf of Leslieann Manning, says she was attacked in an unmonitored classroom by an inmate with a history of violence.
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LGBT inmates sue California county over access to work, rehabilitation programs
LOS ANGELES — Gay, bisexual and transgender inmates filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against San Bernardino County and its sheriff, alleging they are kept in a segregated unit that doesn’t give them equal access to rehabilitation services and work programs that could shorten their incarceration and help them learn job skills.
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Private youth treatment center accepts jailed transgender teen
HARTFORD, Conn. — A 16-year-old transgender girl detained without criminal charges at an adult women’s prison in Connecticut for the past two months has been accepted into a private treatment center for youths in Massachusetts, the top child welfare official in Connecticut said Thursday.
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Jailed transgender teen’s advocates concerned about isolation
HARTFORD, Conn. — A transgender teenage girl detained without being charged at Connecticut’s adult women’s prison is being held in isolation more than a month after being sent there by a state judge, her lawyer said Monday.
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Conn. governor presses for transgender teen to be moved out of adult prison
HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut’s governor is pressing for a transgender teen to be moved from a Connecticut women’s prison where she has been held without charges for a month.
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Judge orders Ohio to resume hormone treatment for transgender inmate
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A transgender prison inmate who complained about losing her breast tissue and growing facial hair after her hormone treatments were stopped must receive the treatments for the rest of her time behind bars, a federal judge ruled Friday.
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Transgender inmate suing Ohio over refusal to allow hormone treatments
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A transgender prison inmate in Ohio wants a federal judge to order the state to allow her hormone treatments to continue, saying she suffered a medical setback including facial hair growth and depression when the treatments stopped.
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Decision to jail transgender girl in adult women’s prison under scrutiny
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — An unusual decision to put a transgender girl at a Connecticut women’s prison is sparking a heated debate over how to handle a teenager called dangerous by the state but portrayed as vulnerable by her attorney.