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A federal appeals court has sided with the Florida Department of Corrections in a dispute with a transgendered inmate who sought treatment for gender dysphoria, including the right to grow her hair, wear women’s undergarments, and otherwise present socially as a woman.
In a 2-1 ruling handed down Wednesday, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit concluded the department had countermanded most of the policies that inmate Reiyn Keohane had complained about, and that therefore there was no legal case to answer.
The court overturned an August 2018 ruling by U.S. District Judge Mark Walker ordering the department, or FDC, to supply hormone therapy to Keohane and allow her to present as female; she’d been born as male.
Scott Coogler, a federal district judge in Alabama sitting temporarily on the panel, joined the ruling.
FL Corrections system's reversal on transgender policy sways appeals court | Florida Phoenix
Not sure why we are asking taxpayers to pay for hormone therapy to treat gender dysphoria in a prison.
In a 2-1 ruling handed down Wednesday, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit concluded the department had countermanded most of the policies that inmate Reiyn Keohane had complained about, and that therefore there was no legal case to answer.
The court overturned an August 2018 ruling by U.S. District Judge Mark Walker ordering the department, or FDC, to supply hormone therapy to Keohane and allow her to present as female; she’d been born as male.
Scott Coogler, a federal district judge in Alabama sitting temporarily on the panel, joined the ruling.
FL Corrections system's reversal on transgender policy sways appeals court | Florida Phoenix
Not sure why we are asking taxpayers to pay for hormone therapy to treat gender dysphoria in a prison.
