by danmahoney | Sep 29, 2011 | transgender, lgbt prison, Bureau of Prisons, BOP, failure to accommodate, Gender Identity Disorder treatment, Transgender healthcare, transition prison, transgender prison
Vanessa Adams is a transgender woman who was diagnosed by Federal Bureau of Prison (BOP) medical professionals with Gender Identity Disorder (GID) in 2005 while she was incarcerated in a BOP prison. Over the next few years, she made at least 19 written requests asking for medical treatment for GID. The BOP denied all of her requests outright based on its so-called “freeze frame” policy in which treatment for any person with GID is kept frozen at the level provided at the time he or...
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