Legal Opinion
Philip Rosati v. Dr. Igbinoso
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 26, 2015No. 13-15984PublishedCited by 849 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
2Per curiam
Philip Walker Rosati (now known as Mia Rosati) is a transgender inmate in the California prison system. 1 Rosati filed a pro se 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint claiming that prison officials violated the Eighth Amendment through deliberate indifference to her serious medical needs. Rosati alleges that she suffers from severe gender dysphoria for which sexual reassignment surgery (“SRS”) is the medically necessary treatment, but that prison officials refuse to provide the surgery. The district court dismissed the complaint at screening without leave to amend for failure to state a claim.…
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