TodaysTMJ4.com – Associated Press – Katie DeLong
Milwakee – A state law prohibiting tax dollars from paying for prisoner sex changes and hormone therapy lets lawmakers make decisions that should be left to physicians, a lawyer said in opening statements of a federal court trial Monday.
Three inmates claim Wisconsin’s law that took effect in 2006 results in cruel punishment and unfair treatment.
The Inmate Sex Change Prevention Act bars the state Department of Correction from using tax dollars for hormone therapy or gender reassignment surgery to treat prisoners for gender identity disorder.