Back in January, a First Circuit panel concluded that Michelle Kosilek, a Massachusetts transgender inmate convicted of murdering her wife, should receive the sex reassignment surgery (SRS) she had been prescribed by her doctors and fought for in court for nearly two decades. The Department of Corrections (DOC) continued to oppose providing the treatment, appealing the case to an en banc hearing by the First Circuit. On Tuesday, the First Circuit reversed the previous decisions, allowing the DOC to deny surgery to Kosilek, and presumably all transgender inmates henceforth…….
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2014/12/16/3604363/transgender-inmate-first-circuit/
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2014/12/16/3604363/transgender-inmate-first-circuit/