Connecticut Court Case.

Right in our own backyard a federal court just told Connecticut to “Just do it!” allow a trans woman in prison to have Gender Confirming Surgery.

Connecticut to Appeal Federal Court Ruling on Gender-Affirming Care for Incarcerated Transgender Woman
CT News Junkie
By Hugh McQuaid
October 16, 2023

Connecticut’s Attorney General’s Office signaled plans last week to appeal a federal court ruling from September, when a judge sided with an incarcerated transgender woman who argued she was denied gender-affirming care while in prison.

Lawyers representing state Department of Correction officials filed a notice of appeal to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan last Tuesday.

Although the appeal has yet to be filed, the notice indicates the state plans to challenge a federal court ruling denying its motion for summary judgment in the case of Veronica-May Clark, who sued the DOC and some of its medical staff on allegations they violated a constitutional prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment by failing for years to provide adequate gender-affirming care.

In a 73-page decision last month, Judge Vanessa Bryant of the U.S. District Court of Connecticut rejected state arguments explaining delays in providing the care sought by Clark.

“[T]he Provider-Defendants’ denial of any medical care for a period of ten months followed by failing to follow the endocrinologist’s instructions, as well as failing to provide qualified health treatment, despite her repeated complaints and history of self-castration, could lead a reasonable jury to find the Provider-Defendants’ conduct was extreme and outrageous,” the judge wrote.

Yes… Just do it!

I didn’t hear hide nor hare on this case so it came as a surprise to read, I thought we were such a progressive state but I guess we have a ways to go.