On Tuesday, in the Western District of Wisconsin, Judge James D. Peterson granted a prisoner with severe gender dysphoria an injunction mandating the Wisconsin Department of Corrections (WDOC) provide the prisoner with sex-reassignment surgery (SRS). The court ruled that prior failures of the WDOC to provide the surgery violated the prisoner’s Eighth Amendment protections.  The … Continue reading Federal Judge Rules Certain Gender Dysphoric Prisoners Have Constitutional Right to Sex Reassignment Surgery