Thomas L. White v. Harold Farrier Crispus C. Nix

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• holding that prisoner with GID suffered from serious medical condition, but failure to provide hormone therapy did not constitute deliberate indifference to that medical need
• holding that gender dysphoria “is a serious medical need”
• finding that although defendant’s experts diagnosed his condition differently than prison doctor did, this did not establish deliberate indifference because physicians are entitled to exercise their medical judgment
• recognizing other courts’ holdings that inmates are not constitutionally entitled to hormone therapy
• “Although White’s experts diagnosed White’s condition differently ... this does not establish deliberate indifference. Physicians are entitled to exercise their medical judgment.”
• warden's receipt of memos and grievances demanding medical treatment did not in and of itself establish warden's supervisory liability for denial of medical care

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).