Posted on 03/17/2024 6:42:10 AM PDT by ransomnote
The Justice Department today announced its finding that the Utah Department of Corrections (UDOC) violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by discriminating against an incarcerated transgender woman on the basis of her disability, gender dysphoria. The department’s investigation found that UDOC failed to provide the complainant (who identifies as female but was assigned male at birth) equal access to health care services after she repeatedly requested hormone therapy. UDOC also failed to make reasonable modifications to its policies and practices to treat the complainant’s gender dysphoria.
Gender dysphoria is a serious medical condition marked by clinically significant distress caused by an incongruence between the sex an individual is assigned at birth and their gender identity. Left untreated, individuals with gender dysphoria can experience serious adverse mental health outcomes.
“All people with disabilities including those who are incarcerated are protected by the ADA and are entitled to reasonable modifications and equal access to medical care, and that basic right extends to those with gender dysphoria,” said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “The Civil Rights Division is committed to ensuring that jails and prisons throughout the country do not discriminate against people with disabilities, and that right includes people with gender dysphoria.”
The department’s investigation found that UDOC imposed unnecessary barriers to treatment for gender dysphoria that were not required for other health conditions, and unnecessarily delayed the complainant’s treatment. When UDOC finally provided her with hormone therapy, it failed to take basic steps to ensure that the treatment was provided safely and effectively.
UDOC also failed to grant the complainant’s requests for reasonable modifications including permitting her to purchase female clothing and personal items in the commissary, modifying pat search policies and individually assessing her housing requests to avoid discrimination on the basis of gender dysphoria. As a result, her gender dysphoria worsened during her incarceration at UDOC. Twenty-two months after entering custody, she performed dangerous self-surgery and removed her own testicles.
The department’s written notice to UDOC of its findings details remedial measures necessary to address them. The department’s investigation is part of its broader efforts to combat discrimination against individuals with gender dysphoria. These include the Civil Rights Division’s recently filed statement of interest clarifying that gender dysphoria can be a covered disability under the ADA and explaining that correctional institutions violate the Eighth Amendment when they categorically refuse to provide medically necessary gender-affirming care to incarcerated individuals with gender dysphoria.
The Civil Rights Division’s Disability Rights Section is handling this matter in collaboration with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Utah.
For more information on the Civil Rights Division, please visit www.justice.gov/crt. For more information on the ADA, please call the department’s toll-free ADA Information Line at 1-800-514-0301 (TTY 1-833-610-1264) or visit www.ada.gov.
Mental Illness
Anorexics in prison must be given diet pills and liposuction?
Rapists in prison must be given victims?
They ought to dispense the hormone therapy with a .45 ACP!
TOTAL BS!
Too many lawyers, judges and Democrat Administrators are no longer FRiendly to nor supportive of The Law or The US Constitution!
They have drunk the LIEberal Kool-Aide, which, apparently, destroys their ability to use Reason, Logic and Common Sense in pursuit of “Liberty and Justice for All!”
And, We the People suffer mightily!
Gonna fix all that on November 5!
MAGA!
Communists are very good at solving imaginary problems.
Individuals with gender dysphoria are seriously mentally ill.
Next will be taxpayer funded surgeries for prison inmates - if it's not happening already.
“Left untreated, individuals with gender dysphoria can experience serious adverse mental health outcomes.”
The “treatment” leaves them worse off than before with physical mutilation and toxic drugs frequently leading to severe depression and suicide. It violates “do no harm.”
There is no such thing as a trans man or trans woman. There are some disturbed and confused queers out there, but they are just that, and to pretend they are as they claim does a disservice to society.
A sad commentary for the entire world.
Not only are they mentally ill, but also criminals!
....Gender dysphoria is a serious medical condition marked by clinically significant distress caused by an incongruence between the sex an individual is assigned at birth and their gender identity....
The inmte, plus the enabling Feds, are crazy mental cased
“If you have the Y, you were born a guy”
Who assigned him a male at birth? God..nature.. democracy?
“ The “treatment” leaves them worse off than before with physical mutilation and toxic drugs frequently leading to severe depression and suicide. It violates “do no harm.””
I have a good friend who’s a Clinical Psychologist who can vouch for this statement.
***between the sex an individual is assigned at birth and their gender identity.***
Sounds like the opening scene in Monty Python’s THE MEANING OF LIFE. The Miracle of Birth..
DOCTOR SPENSER: Measure it, blood type it, and isolate it!
[whump]
NURSE #1: Okay.
[clap clap]
Show’s over.
OBSTETRICIAN: Jolly good.
RANDOM: [mumbling] ...everyone.
OBSTETRICIAN: Jolly good.
MRS. MOORE: Is it a boy or a girl?
OBSTETRICIAN: Now, I think it’s a little early to start imposing roles on it, don’t you? Now, a word of advice. You may find that you suffer for some time a totally irrational feeling of depression: ‘P.N.D.’, as we doctors call it. So, it’s lots of happy pills for you, and you can find out all about the birth when you get home. It’s available on Betamax, VHS, and Super Eight.
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Thanks for posting ‘note. GEAT comments BUMP!
Will the J6 prisoners get just treatment if they identify with gender dysphoria?
” incarcerated transgender woman”
incarcerated fake gender woman, in other words, a man.
The prison lawyers don’t care, they just pay the settlement with taxpayer dollars.
It’s time these frivolous lawsuits get paid by the mentally deficient lawyers for the plaintiff.
“Assigned at birth”. So we’re all just blank, naked action figures until birth and then we are “Assigned” equipment”?
Who assigned his gender at birth? That’s a pretty sick statement that some unknown turd roller passing through the hospital delivery room assigned this clown his male gender. It is good to know that gender disorientation is a mental disease. That would make “pronouns” mentally retarded psychobabble.
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