Legal Opinion
Casillas v. Daines
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided August 5, 2008No. 07 Civ. 4082(PKC)PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
P. KEVIN CASTEL, District Judge.
Plaintiff Terri Casillas alleges that the New York State Commissioner of Health has deprived her of rights protected by the Constitution and federal law in denying her Medicaid coverage for surgeries and services necessary to treat her Gender Identity Disorder (“GID”). According to her complaint, “[i]n persons diagnosed with transsexualism or profound GID, sex reassignment surgery, along with hormoné therapy and real-life experience, is a treatment that has proven effective.” (ComplV 39.) Plaintiff alleges that gender reassignment surgeries…
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