Scott Gibson v. Bryan Collier
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
JAMES C. HO, Circuit Judge:
A state does not inflict cruel and unusual punishment by declining to provide sex reassignment surgery to a transgender inmate. The only federal court of appeals to *216 decide such a claim to date has so held as an en banc court. See Kosilek v. Spencer , 774 F.3d 63 , 76-78, 87-89, 96 (1st Cir. 2014) (en banc). The district court in this case so held. And we so hold today.
Under established precedent, it can be cruel and unusual punishment to deny essential medical care to an inmate. But that does not mean prisons must provide whatever care an inmate wants. Rather, the…
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