"A group of incarcerated transgender women and men have sued Georgia corrections officials, challenging a new law that prevents them from receiving gender-affirming medical care." This is cruel and unusual punishment. https://thecurrentga.org/2025/08/09/trans-people-in-georgia-prisons-are-being-forced-to-detransition-now-theyre-suing/
The Current
Trans people in Georgia prisons are being forced to detransition. Now they’re suing.A group of incarcerated transgender women and men have sued Georgia corrections officials, challenging a new law that prevents them from receiving gender-affirming medical care, arguing that it violates the Eighth Amendment and will have "catastrophic consequences" for the nearly 300 other people in Georgia state prisons.
