DOJ signals that U.S. prisons must adopt transgender policies for prisoners

[Michie]

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) this week signaled that prisons throughout the United States must provide prisoners with transgender-related medical care, including “hormone therapy” and other gender-related requests.

The department said in a press release on Tuesday that the Utah Department of Corrections (UDOC) had “violated the Americans with Disabilities Act” when it “failed to provide” a male prisoner with access to “hormone therapy.”

The prisoner in question had claimed to identify as a woman and had “repeatedly requested” access to female hormones as well as special accommodations such as “female clothing” and the modification of “pat search policies.” The individual’s gender dysphoria “worsened during [his] incarceration” at UDOC, the DOJ said.

The department in its finding ordered UDOC to “adopt, revise, and implement relevant policies, practices, and procedures” in order to bring its practices in line with the DOJ’s preferences, including “providing health care services for gender dysphoria consistent with UDOC’s treatment of other medical conditions.”

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Biden DOJ: US prisons must allow transgender procedures for prisoners

The Department of Justice said the Utah Department of Corrections had violated the Americans with Disabilities Act.

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[DJWhalen]

It is a outrage! The American's with Disabilitys act is for people like me (I have MS) and not for inmates that is transgender!!!

 

[RileyG]

This is nuts.

 

[Wolseley]

The inmates are running the asylum. But, what can you expect with a guy like Biden in charge, a guy who is too far gone to reign in the mob of agenda-driven maniacs cavorting loose in the government? It's a like a bunch of grade schoolers who somehow get the keys to the family car, and then find a gun in the glovebox---they shouldn't be there in the first place, and they only got there because nobody was keeping them in check.