Posted on 12/09/2025 3:35:11 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge has permanently ordered Georgia’s prison system to keep providing some kinds of gender-affirming care for transgender prisoners, although the state plans to appeal.
U.S. District Judge Victoria Marie Calvert last week ruled that a new state law denying hormone therapy to inmates violated their protection against cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. She ordered the state to keep providing hormones to inmates who had been receiving therapy and to allow others medically diagnosed as needing hormone therapy to begin receiving treatment.
“The court finds that there is no genuine dispute of fact that gender dysphoria is a serious medical need,” Calvert wrote in her order. “Plaintiffs, through their experts, have presented evidence that a blanket ban on hormone therapy constitutes grossly inadequate care for gender dysphoria and risks imminent injury.”
Calvert had already issued a preliminary order in September blocking the law before finalizing it.
It is the latest turn in legal battles over federal and state efforts to regulate the lives of transgender people, including which sports competitions they can join and which bathrooms they can use. In June, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors. President Donald Trump’s administration in April sued Maine for not complying with the government’s push to ban transgender athletes in girls sports.
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No medical basis for this nonsense.
Is this judge a Dr ?
Probably a pervert too (the judge). I think that, along with low IQ and an amoral mindset, were requirements during the Biden administration.
I’m beginning to think hormone therapy for all people in prison would help reduce a lot of problems.
It’s a sort of torture penalty, under acceptable auspices, trying to equalize the sexes, or such. Feminizing all the violent men might curb their physical violence preference. It might also shrink their privates.
I will have to think on this. Liberals may be on to something, here…
50-46 DEI HIRE under the auto-pen.
Don't know what I'm going to do.
I am a strong advocate of a large feed of thorazine into our drinking water supplies.
This is sick. Twisted logic and perverted so-called health care. Prison inmates deserve prison time without ridiculous benefits.
Define “imminent injury”
Just say no.
Dare this judge to do anything about it.
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Let’s advise and consult our senators, please?
It was purely results-oriented.
“gender-affirming care”
The worst hijack of the language perpetrated by the left in years. It sickens me every time l see it used.
What happens, exactly, if Georgia decides they will continue?
“”denying hormone therapy to inmates violated their protection against cruel and unusual punishment””
In whose world? They’re in jail/prison, are they not? That’s their punishment and isn’t that cruel and unusual? Also they would be in imminent danger if their therapy was withheld??? Why are they in prison?
They apparently didn’t care about danger affecting them when they did whatever it was that landed them in prison. Why DOES the judge worry about it? Relax judge and do your job - not favors!!
What is the point of making a law if a judge can overturn it?
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