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April 10, 2015

Georgia Allows Hormones for Transgender Prisoner 
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Georgia has agreed to end its blanket ban on hormone treatment for
transgender prisoners after the Department of Justice intervened on
behalf of a transgender woman denied hormones for three years. The
Justice Department voiced support for Ashley Diamond's lawsuit over
deprivation of the hormones she took for 17 years before her
imprisonment. State officials say Diamond is now receiving the
treatments.

 

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