A federal judge has permanently ordered Georgia's prison system to keep providing some kinds of gender-affirming care for transgender prisoners, although the state plans to appeal.
U.S. District Judge Victoria Marie Calvert last week ruled that a new state law denying hormone therapy to inmates violated their protection against cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. She ordered the state to keep providing hormones to inmates who had been receiving therapy and to allow others medically diagnosed as needing hormone therapy to begin receiving treatment.
