Roy Mitchell, Jr. v. Kevin Kallas

Wood, Chief Judge.

Lisa Mitchell is a transgender person who has identified as a woman her entire life. After an arrest in Wisconsin, officials from the state's Department of Corrections ("DOC") repeatedly prevented Mitchell from obtaining access to the treatments she needed to express her gender identity. It took DOC over a year to evaluate Mitchell's candidacy for hormone therapy, and even then, nothing happened. Instead, *496 DOC refused to provide Mitchell with the treatment its own expert recommended, on the ground that Mitchell was within a month of release from the prison. Although DOC's…