Fields v. Smith

How courts have described this case

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• \Refusing to provide effective treatment for a serious medical condition serves no valid penological purpose and amounts to torture.\
• accepting, in the absence of contrary evidence, expert testimony that \psychotherapy as well as antipsychotics and antidepressants . . . do nothing to treat the underlying disorder [of GID]\
• upholding the District Court’s invalidation of Wisconsin statute that created a blanket ban on hormone therapy and sex reassignment surgery for inmates with GID
• “Refusing to provide effective treatment for a serious medical condition serves no valid penological pur- pose and amounts to torture.”
• enforcement of Wisconsin statute preventing prison officials from dispensing hormone therapy to transgender inmates constituted deliberate indifference to transgender inmates’ serious medical needs, and statute facially violated the Eighth Amendment
• ―‗Sexual reassignment surgery‘ means surgical procedures to alter a person‘s physical appearance so that the person appears more like the opposite gender.‖ (quoting the Wisconsin Inmate Sex Change Prevention Act, WIS. STAT. § 302.386(5m) (2010))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).