Mitchell v. Wall

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

Roy Mitchell — physically a man, psychologically a woman — appeals from the denial of her motion for a preliminary injunction to compel the probation officers assigned to supervise her to alter the conditions of her probation, as by allowing her to reside with her family rather than in the men’s homeless shelter to which she is currently assigned and referring her to counseling and treatment programs for her gender dysphoria.

She has spent much of her adult life either homeless or behind bars. After a recent stint in a Wisconsin state prison, from which she was released…