Constitutional Law,
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
May 17, 2019
9th Circuit confronts gender conformity surgery in prisons
A three judge panel in the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals confronted the issue Thursday of whether a prison can be forced to provide gender conformity surgery to an inmate suffering from gender dysphoria.
A three judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals confronted the issue Thursday of whether a prison could be forced to provide sex reassignment surgery to an inmate suffering from gender dysphoria.
The federal appeals court has never before weighed in on whether the U.S. Constitution requires prisons to provide such surgery, and the judges appeared eager to find alternative routes to settling the case without creating a c...
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