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· 12/9/1997

Tasha S. Maggert v. Craig A. Hanks

Citations

  • 131 F.3d 670
  • 1997 U.S. App. LEXIS 34413
  • 1997 WL 757446

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • affirming dismissal of an Eighth Amendment deliberate indifference claim where a transgender prisoner thought he had gender dysphoria but the prison psychologist did not
  • describing a transgender woman’s gender dysphoria as a medical condition, the treatment of which required estrogen therapy and surgery
  • “A prison is not required by the Eighth Amendment to give a prisoner medical care that is as good as he would receive if he were a free person, let alone an affluent free person.”
  • describing gender dysphoria as a “profound psychiatric disorder”
  • describing gender dysphoria as a \profound psychiatric disorder\
  • acknowledging gender dysphoria as a “serious psychiatric disorder”

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Judges: Posner, Bauer, Evans

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