JSOnline.com – By John Diedrich
Is it a disease if someone is born anatomically as one gender but yearns to be the other? And if so, what treatments should be given if that person is in prison?
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Those questions were the focus Monday in a federal trial in Milwaukee with potential national implications.
The case pits three prisoners born male, who are taking hormones to become female, against the state’s top corrections official and others. The plaintiffs say a state law banning the hormones for prisoners amounts to punishment targeted to a class of people.