Lamb v. Maschner

How courts have described this case

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• holding that plaintiff had no right to makeup, women’s clothes, hormone therapy, sex reassignment procedure, or a transfer to a women’s prison where none of the psychiatrists who examined plaintiff recommended hormones or surgery and psychological treatment was provided
• finding prison officials were not constitutionally required to provide prisoner with specific treatment requested of hormones and SRS
• finding prison officials were not constitutionally required to provide prisoner with specific treatment requested of hormones and SRS
• allowing defendant’s motion for summary judgment where evidence did not clearly indicate that prisoner was a transsexual, but he had been evaluated by doctors, psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers, none of whom recommended hormones or surgery
• “Even though a transfer may relieve plaintiff’s anxieties, clearly a violation of the women’s rights would be at issue.”
• transsexual filed section 1983 action based, in part, on sexual harassment and molestation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).