Group Urges Court to Toss Ruling Requiring Prisons to Provide Transgender Surgeries for Inmates

There is no legal obligation for prisons to offer ‘irreversible experimental procedures’ to prisoners, the nonprofit argued.

Demonstrators at Detransition Awareness Day in Los Angeles on March 12, 2022. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times

America First Legal (AFL) filed an amicus brief urging an appeals court to reverse a district court ruling that required states to provide inmates with transgender surgeries, the nonprofit law firm said in an April 1 statement.

AFL filed the brief in a case that sought to clarify whether prisons are obligated to provide such surgeries for inmates deemed to have gender dysphoria, a stance supported by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH).