Daily Sheeple – by Sean Walton
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the state of Idaho must provide gender confirmation surgery to inmate Adree Edmo.
The panel of judges agreed with U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill’s ruling in Edmo’s favor last December, writing that his findings were “logical and well-supported” and that “responsible prison officials were deliberately indifferent to Edmo’s gender dysphoria, in violation of the Eighth Amendment.” Continue reading “9th Circuit Court: Idaho must provide transgender inmate with gender surgery, state to appeal”