Dee Farmer v. Richard Haas, Edward J. Brennan, and L.E. Dubois

U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · Decided 1993-04-02

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POSNER, Circuit Judge. Dee Farmer, a federal prison inmate, brought this suit for damages against three members of the prison staff, charging deliberate indifference (in violation of the cruel and unusual punishments clause of the Eighth Amendment) to her need for medical and psychiatric treatment for the condition known as transsexualism (gender dysphoria). After this court in an…

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