Prisoners, Doctors, and the Battle Over Trans Medical Care

July 12, 2021

(Wired) – An oddity of medical care in the US is that access to it is a constitutional right—at least on paper—for a single category of Americans: the incarcerated. Courts have long interpreted the Eighth Amendment’s guarantee against cruel and unusual punishment to mean that prisons must provide “adequate” and “medically necessary” care. Over the past 20 years, transgender prisoners have argued in lawsuits that gender-affirming hormone therapy and surgery should qualify.  (Read Full Article)