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Litigation

Apr. 3, 1999

Court Upholds Prisoner's Right to Hormones

SAN FRANCISCO - State prison officials can't abruptly stop female hormone treatments for transsexual inmates after first allowing them, a federal judge in Sacramento ruled in a case that may be among the first in the state to give prisoners any right to gender-bending medications.

By Dennis Pfaff
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        SAN FRANCISCO - State prison officials can't abruptly stop female hormone treatments for transsexual inmates after first allowing them, a federal judge in Sacramento ruled in a case that may be among the first in the state to give prisoners any right to gender-bending medications.
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