from USA Today:
A transgender federal inmate who fought for four years to push the U.S. Bureau of Prisons to provide gender-affirming care to prisoners underwent surgery last week and is recovering, her attorneys said.
A federal judge in April 2022 ordered the bureau to ensure that Cristina Nichole Iglesias would get the gender-affirming surgery she’d sought throughout several years of litigation. At the time, Iglesias was in line to become the first-ever transgender inmate to receive gender-affirming surgery while in custody. Instead, another federal detainee became the first earlier this year, a development that civil rights advocates said became possible after Iglesias' cases put a spotlight on transgender prisoners' healthcare needs.
Iglesias' surgery was performed without complications on March 30, her attorneys said. Continue reading >>>
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