https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-Idaho-transgender-inmate-gender-surgery.htmlA federal judge says Idaho must provide gender confirmation surgery to a transgender inmate who has been living as a woman for years but who has continuously been housed in a men's prison.
Barring any appeals, under the ruling Adree Edmo, 31, will become the first Idaho inmate to receive gender confirmation surgery while in Idaho Department of Correction custody.
The ruling in Idaho's U.S. District Court was handed down by Judge B. Lynn Winmill on Thursday. Winmill said the Idaho Department of Correction and Corizon's refusal to provide Edmo with the surgery puts her at risk of irreparable harm.
'For more than forty years, the Supreme Court has consistently held that consciously ignoring an prisoner's serious medical needs amounts to cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment,' Judge B. Lynn Winmill wrote in his ruling issued Thursday.
She was sentenced in April 2012 for sexual abuse of a child under 16, and in June 2012 was diagnosed with dysphoria. She will be released in 2021.
Prior to her imprisonment, she lived as a woman.
Edmo had already undergone some treatment for her gender dysphoria, including long-term hormone therapy.
She has also tried to present herself as feminine while incarcerated, modifying her undergarments, styling her hair and wearing makeup.
Prison officials gave her disciplinary reports for those actions, however, and as a result she was denied parole, according to the lawsuit.
Edmo testified that she feels depressed, embarrassed and disgusted by her male genitalia.
Her gender dysmorphia was so severe that in 2015 she tried to remove her testicles using a disposable razor blade.
She was unsuccessful at that time, though she continued to be troubled by thoughts of self-castration.
Is she depressed, embarrassed and disgusted for what she did to her victim.