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Reflections on the Legal Battles Over Prisoners with Gender Dysphoria.

J Am Acad Psychiatry Law

June 2016

Dr. Levine is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Co-director of the Center for Marital and Sexual Health, and Co-director of the Gender Identity Clinic, Beachwood, OH.

Momentum has shifted in the legal battles over the provision of sex reassignment surgery (SRS) for male prisoners. In 2015, two court decisions granted the operation and were not appealed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. The author, who has participated in some of these battles as an expert, analyzes the strengths and limitations of the medical illness, developmental, and minority rights paradigms for Gender Dysphoria that are used to reach psychiatric opinions about medical necessity.

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