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Dual Prongs for the Doubly Imprisoned: Transsexual Inmates & the Eighth Amendment Right to Treatment
Publication year:
2007
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 02, 2007
ANNOTATION: The constitutional right to treatment for gender identity disorders (GID) by transsexuals is examined. The argument goes that discontinued treatment is a violation of the Eighth Amendment claim against cruel and unusual punishment. This paper is divided into five parts: introduction; transsexuals -- definition and treatment; the Eighth Amendment; GID treatment in prison and the Eighth Amendment; and conclusion. "There is no constitutional right to a specific treatment" for transsexuals (p. 26).