The US Department of Justice filed two documents Friday, reversing actions taken under the Biden Administration regarding gender dysphoria claims by inmates who claimed a constitutional right to transgender surgeries provided by taxpayers.
The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, now headed by Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, withdrew a prior statement of interest in Doe v. Fuller v. Georgia Department of Corrections and submitted a new statement of interest in Fuller v. Georgia Department of Corrections. The filings, in the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, address claims brought by inmates seeking taxpayer-funded, elective surgeries as treatment for gender dysphoria.
According to the Justice Department, the Biden Administration’s filings misrepresented the law by relying on politically motivated medical guidelines and asserting an unfounded legal right to elective surgeries under the Eighth Amendment and the Americans with Disabilities Act.
“The prior administration’s arguments in transgender inmate cases were based on junk science. There has never been an Eighth Amendment right for inmates to demand elective and experimental surgeries. States’ limited resources need not be wasted to provide these dubious surgeries to inmates,” said Dhillon. “The prior administration’s nonsensical reading of the Americans with Disabilities Act was an affront to the very people the statute intended to protect.”
In both cases, the plaintiffs requested state-funded sexual reassignment surgeries, with previous filings suggesting such procedures constituted necessary medical care under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Today’s filings reject that position, emphasizing that neither the ADA nor the Constitution entitles inmates to optional medical procedures.
The Civil Rights Division’s updated filings aim to clarify the legal standards for inmate medical claims and ensure that taxpayer resources are allocated appropriately.
While some inmates want gender dysphoria to be considered a disability to be protected by law, transgenders are also fighting to have it normalized in the military and are taking their case to the Supreme Court to have it not labeled as a disability.
Tax dollars being used to do Tranny surgeries in prison are you kidding me????? I want my money back! Ridiculous keep that crap banned from ever happening again!
This is ridiculous. The costs are enormous and it’s the Democrats, Big Pharma, and the surgeons who profit from this. If someone wants the surgery they can pay for it and in the case of inmates they can wait until they’re released.
Now do government-funded abortions.
They’re just playing Oprah. ” you get a surgery! And YOU get a surgery!”