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Transgender Prisoners Will Now Receive Treatment For Gender Identity Disorder | This week, a settlement was reached in the case of Vanessa Adams, a Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) inmate who sued because the BOP would not allow her to receive the proper medical treatment to transition her gender. Adams’ challenge led the BOP to change its “freeze frame” policy, which prevented transgender prisoners from receiving any treatment for gender identity disorder after entering the prison system.
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