The Federal Bureau of Prisons is ordered to immediately secure a qualified surgeon, so a transgender inmate can have gender-affirming surgery.
ILLINOIS --
It could pave the way for the first gender confirmation operation for an inmate while in federal custody, Ed Yohnka, a spokesman for the ACLU Illinois, has previously said. Yohnka is also representing the inmate, who is now housed in Texas. According to her suit, at age 12, Iglesias told her mother she wanted to live as a girl. In 2009, she tried to castrate herself, the suit states. Iglesias has been in federal custody since 1994 and is currently housed at FMC Carswell, a women's prison in Texas, convicted of threatening to use a weapon of mass destruction, Yohnka said.
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