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Bureau of Prisons Transsexual Policy Challenged
Loaded on Dec. 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
December, 1998, page 26
Bureau Of Prisons Transsexual Policy Challenged Afederal district court in the District of Columbia held that trans-sexualism is a "serious medical condition" for which prisoners have a constitutional right to treatment. Dee Farmer is a federal prisoner who sued the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) challenging as unconstitutional the BOP policy ...
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