The Massachusetts Department of Corrections must provide a sexual reassignment surgery to a transgender inmate, a federal judge in Boston ruled Tuesday, marking the first time a federal judge has ...

Several transgender inmates, including a convicted MS-13 gang member, are lining up to join a class action lawsuit brought by ...

After a federal judge ruled that the Idaho Department of Corrections must provide a trans inmate sex reassignment surgery to match her gender identity, the state appealed the verdict to the Ninth ...

Adree Edmo – Photo: National Center for Lesbian Rights. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the state of Idaho must foot the bill for gender confirmation surgery for a transgender ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - A federal judge has ordered Alaska’s prison system to reconsider a transgender woman’s request to undergo surgery after declaring a state policy on the issue is so ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Five transgender inmates have filed a lawsuit against the Utah Department of Corrections and the Utah Department of Health & Human Services, challenging a new state law that bans ...

ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge has permanently ordered Georgia’s prison system to keep providing some kinds of gender-affirming care for transgender prisoners, although the state plans to appeal. U.S.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cristina Iglesias, who was released from federal prison in 2023, poses for a portrait at the ACLU offices in downtown Chicago. She ...

Briefs ask 9th Circuit to overturn judge who said its precedent required him to find 8th Amendment right to "gender confirming surgery" for child sexual abuser. Judge got it backward on what's "cruel ...