Blog.OregonLive.com – Ashbel S. (Tony) Green
A federal judge has rejected an inmate’s lawsuit seeking to force Oregon prison officials to pay for a sex-change operation and a transfer to a women’s prison.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Janice Stewart ruled that inmate Anny May Stevens could not pursue a federal lawsuit for a sex-change operation because the inmate had previously lost the same suit in state court.
Stewart also ruled that it was reasonable for the state Department of Corrections to run single-sex prisons and base placement on the anatomical sex of inmates.