The Justice Department of President Joe Biden announced on Wednesday that it had filed a complaint against the state of Utah and its Department of Corrections for failing to give a person hormones for his female distress.
The slave, who identifies as a trans woman, is said to have requested to order women’s apparel and “personal products in the commissary”, such as women’s underpants and beauty.
He even wanted to be housed with adult prisoners, the DOJ said. According to the Justice Department, the Utah Department of Corrections selects prison accommodations based on gender at” commitment,” when staff members perform a physical search of vagina.
According to the DOJ, the Utah Department of Corrections declined to offer those requests, accusing the company of aggravated the boy’s gender dysphoria.
” Twenty- two weeks after entering custody”, the DOJ said, the trans- identifying slave “performed harmful home- operation and removed ]his ] personal testicles”.
According to Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, “people with gender dysphoria, including those held in jails and prisons, are protected by the Americans with Disabilities Act and are entitled to equitable access to medical care, like anyone else with a disability.”
” Delays or refusals to provide medical care for people with gender dysphoria may cause irreversible injury, including severe stress, depression, attempts at personal- treatment and even death by suicide”, Clarke added. The Civil Rights Division is” committed to protecting the rights of all people with disability in our state, including those who experience gender dysphoria,” adding that those rights are never relinquished outside of jail.
The Utah Department of Corrections was also accused by the DOJ of “imposing unwanted eligibility requirements for evaluation and treatment for female anxiety that it does not need for other circumstances.” According to a letter of results sent to the Utah company, the prison system passes requests for “medical treatment” for gender dysphoria to its female dysphoria committee.
If a man in the Utah Department of Corrections chooses to identify himself as a trans woman, he will need to ask an evaluation from the company’s mental health personnel, who will then report their findings to the sex dysphoria committee. According to the letter of findings, the Department of Corrections did send the man to its contract psychologist if the committee approves the evaluation. The committee will determine whether or not to relate the man to a health care provider for a medical evaluation for gender dysphoria.
The incarcerated person must wait one year before being eligible to request diagnostic services again, according to the letter. ” After a diagnostic assessment ,]the Utah Department of Corrections ] medical staff will consider the psychologist’s recommendations and may order treatment with hormones, but not ‘]c ] osmetic or elective surgical procedures for the purpose of sex reassignment.'”
The Justice Department claims that members of the committee were members of a group of people who were reluctant to write hormones for gender dysphoria, calling it “overt bias against the people seeking care.”
When the Department of Corrections finally allowed the prisoner identified in the Justice Department’s lawsuit to start hormonal medication, the DOJ claimed, the prisoner’s Department of Corrections doctor tried to talk him out of taking hormones. The doctor then failed to take “basic steps to ensure that it was provided safely and effectively,” according to the DOJ, including conducting routine laboratory testing.
The Justice Department is calling on the Utah agency to adopt, revise, and implement new policies that let men who think they are women or women who think they are men to obtain “health care services” for gender dysphoria, and to “reasonably modify UDOC policies, practices, and procedures when necessary to ensure that individuals with gender dysphoria have equal access to all UDOC services, programs, and activities including commissary, pat and visual searches, housing, and required and optional programming”.
The Utah Department of Corrections stated in a March 12 statement that it is working on the” complex” issue and that it was “blindsided” by the DOJ’s announcement regarding its findings in March.
Executive Director Brian Redd stated in a statement that” we have also taken steps on our own, and as a state, to meet the needs of inmates while upholding the highest safety standards.” We fundamentally disagree with the DOJ on important issues, and we are disappointed by their strategy.
