Thursday, May 16, 2019

Transgender Self-Castration

Transgender Self-Castration --- ===

Prisoners have resorted to self-castration in order to get gender assignment surgery.


*Reference 


A Gender Variance Who's Who most comprehensive on the web devoted to trans history and biography


National Center for Lesbian Rights represented many cases

Castration - Wikipedia Castration (also known as testiclectomy) is any action, surgical, chemical, or otherwise, by ..... and hyperbole, e.g. Luke 9:62, the church has broadly discouraged any understanding of this passage as recommending literal "self-castration".

Emasculation - Wikipedia  Emasculation of a human male is the removal of both the penis and the testicles, the external ... For more information on emasculation in China, see Castration#China. The ancient Vietnamese adopted China's practice of emasculation and the ...

Self-surgery - Wikipedia Sometimes people resort to self-surgery in the form of castration in an attempt to control their sexual urges, or due to gender dysphoria.

*Persons 

  • Adree Edmo Idaho prisoner  sentenced in 2012 after being convicted of sexual abuse of a child younger than 16. In 2015 she tried to castrate herself with a razor and she in 2016 she tried again and removed one testicle. December 2018 courts ruled ordering gender change surgery. represented by the National Center for Lesbian Rights, .
  • Josephime Von Isaak serving a life sentence in Idaho for killing 53-year-old Jack Herridge in 1995 2006 lawsuit  settled in 2009 represented by Soros-funded National Center for Lesbian Rights
  • Shiloh Quine transgender woman held in a California woman's prison who was the first U.S. inmate to get state-funded gender-reassignment surgery in 2017  Represented by Transgender Law Center fundedby Soros Justice Fellowships and Arcus Foudation.  She was convicted of first-degree murder, kidnapping and robbery for ransom and has no possibility of parole. Quine and an accomplice kidnapped and fatally shot 33-year-old Shahid Ali Baig, a father of three, in downtown Los Angeles in February 1980, stealing $80 and his car during a drug- and alcohol-fueled rampage.[7]  Transgender Law Center, which represents Quine stated the surgery not only fulfills a landmark legal settlement but marks a victory "for all transgender people who have ever been denied the medical care we need"

*Timeline


2018 Adree Edmo Idaho prisoner  sentenced in 2012 after being convicted of sexual abuse of a child younger than 16. In 2015 she tried to castrate herself with a razor and she in 2016 she tried again and removed one testicle. December 2018 courts ruled ordering gender change surgery. She is represented by the National Center for Lesbian Rights, .

Appeals court to decide surgery for Idaho transgender inmate ...
www.startribune.com/appeals-court-to-decide-on-transgender...s.../510027682/

May 16 Attorneys for Idaho prison officials argued Thursday that a transgender inmate who is suing for access to gender confirmation surgery is too mentally unstable to receive the irreversible medical procedure.  Lawyer Brady Hall told a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that Idaho has no policy barring gender confirmation surgery for transgender inmates and that the Department of Correction specifically allows the treatment if it's deemed medically appropriate.  her suffering was so great that she twice tried to mutilate herself in her prison cell. ...  "She shouldn't have to attempt self-castration again or attempt suicide to get the care" she needs, Rifkin said. "Every day is a struggle to survive."


Idaho appeals ruling ordering surgery for transgender inmate ...
www.startribune.com/idaho-appeals-ruling...for-transgender-inmate/504129552/
Jan 9, 2019 - Idaho appeals ruling ordering surgery for transgender inmate Adree Edmo ... Edmo's gender dysphoria was so severe that twice she tried to castrate herself in prison, using a disposable razor blade. Idaho Department of Correction filed a notice advising U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill that the state will appeal his ruling to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The inmate would be the first in Idaho to get the procedure while in state custody and only the second inmate in the nation to receive the surgery. hard working taxpayers of Idaho should not be forced to pay for a prisoner's gender reassignment surgery when individual insurance plans won't even cover it," Republican Gov. Brad Little said in a prepared statement. Edmo, who was sentenced in 2012 after being convicted of sexual abuse of a child younger than 16, is scheduled to be released in July
2021.

Transgender Child Sex Abuser Lauded as Civil Rights Hero for Landmark Lawsuit: Mason "Adree" Edmo

https://www.reddit.com/r/GenderCritical/comments/ac6ko4/transgender_child_sex_abuser_lauded_as_civil/  carpetplaydoh   Oh, ffs, he's a monster. Not only did he molest a child under 16, but he also has a history of ipv.

Intimate Partner Violence Mr. Edmo, who was named Mason Edmo at birth, also has a record of intimate partner violence. “He would beat me on a constant basis,” Mr. Edmo’s ex-partner, Brady Summers, tearfully recalled in an on-camera interview with KIFI: Local News 8. “I had to keep my head low. I had to be careful what I said, careful what I did. And the final straw of me escaping that was him beating me with a frying pan.” In addition to these beatings, Mr. Summers claimed that his ex violently raped him. “He was a predator. He, on several occasions, had his way with me. It was brutal.”   Mr. Edmo is expected to be released from prison in July 2021.

Judge orders Idaho to give transgender inmate gender... | Daily Mail ...  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Judge-orders-Idaho-transgender-inmate-gender-surgery....  Dec 14, 2018 - Adree Edmo will become the first Idaho inmate to receive gender ... child abuser inmatewho previously tried to castrate herself with a razor.A federal judge says Idaho must provide gender surgery to Adree Edmo  Edmo is housed with male prisoners but has undergone hormone therapy, wears makeup, chooses feminine hair and has modified underwear  Edmo is one of 30 Idaho inmates with gender dysphoria  In 2015 she tried to castrate herself with a razor and she in 2016 she tried again and removed one testicle   currently 30 inmates with gender dysphoria in state custody,  according to the ruling.they can't deny medically necessary care to transgender prisoners - that is a requirement under our constitution,' said Amy Whelan, an attorney with the National Center for Lesbian Rights, which represented Edmo in the lawsuit. 'sentenced in April 2012 for sexual abuse of a child under 16, and in June 2012 was diagnosed with dysphoria. She will be released in 2021. Prior to her imprisonment, she lived as a woman.   testified that she feels depressed, embarrassed and disgusted by her male genitalia.   December 2016 she made another attempt, studying anatomy, boiling her razor blade in an attempt to make it sterile and managing to remove one of her testicles before she began to lose too much blood and called for help.  That's when prison officials had her transported to a nearby hospital, where the testicle was repaired.






Adree Edmo v. Idaho Department of Correction, et al. - National Center Lesbian Rights  NCLR, along with co-counsel Hadsell Stormer & Renick LLP and Ferguson Durham, PLLC, represents Adree Edmo, a Native American transgender woman in ...


A Federal Court To Rule On Sex Reassignment Surgery For Idaho ...
https://www.npr.org/2019/.../court-to-rule-on-sex-reassignment-surgery-for-idaho-inmat...

Victim of transgender inmate speaks out - KIFI
https://www.localnews8.com/news/victim-of-transgender-inmate...out/940301641
Dec 18, 2018 - IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI/KIDK) - Brady Summers dated Mason Edmo, now Adree Edmo, for two years. It was his first relationship since ...

Adree Edmo is a Native American trans... - Black and Pink: Boise ...
https://www.facebook.com/.../posts/adree-edmo-is-a...l/628904870544245/
Adree Edmo is a Native American trans woman incarcerated in Boise, Idaho who is looking for a pen pal. Here's her picture and a little bit about her in...

STATE ORDERED TO PAY FOR SURGERY FOR TRANSGENDER ...
https://www.idahostatejournal.com › News › Local
Dec 14, 2018 - Adree Edmo, 31, a transgender woman who has been housed in a men's prison, was sentenced in April 2012 for sexual abuse of a child under ...

Judge: Idaho can't delay Local transgender inmate's surgery | Local ...
https://www.idahostatejournal.com › News › Local
Mar 5, 2019 - Adree Edmo. Edmo ... of Correction's appeal in the case was likely to fail and that delaying Adree Edmo's surgery could cause her great harm.

Court postpones gender reassignment surgery for Idaho inmate ...
https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/article228949579.html
Apr 7, 2019 - A judge gave Idaho 6 months to pay for transgender inmate’s surgery. Now it’s postponed. BY GRETEL KAUFFMAN (TWIN FALLS) TIMES-NEWS  APRIL 07, 2019  Adree Edmo, a transgender woman who was sentenced to prison in 2012, could become the second incarcerated person in the United States ..., filed a lawsuit after the Idaho Department of Correction and Corizon, a private medical care company used by the department, refused to provide Edmo with gender reassignment surgery. The state argued that the procedure was medically unnecessary, but a U.S. District Court judge ruled in December that the state must provide Edmo with the surgery within six months.  chairman of the Idaho Board of Correction, disagreed with the ruling.  “If Ms. Edmo had a broken arm, we’d all agree it should be treated,” McClusky said in a statement. “But disagreement among medical professionals in this case does not constitute cruel and unusual  punishment.”California became the first state to pay for a transgender inmate’s reassignment surgery in 2015 when state officials agreed to provide the surgery to settle a lawsuit brought against them.

Shiloh Quine

The Transgender Law Center represented Shiloh Quine, a transgender woman held in a California woman's prison who was the first U.S. inmate to get state-funded gender-reassignment surgery in 2017 She was convicted of first-degree murder, kidnapping and robbery for ransom and has no possibility of parole. Quine and an accomplice kidnapped and fatally shot 33-year-old Shahid Ali Baig, a father of three, in downtown Los Angeles in February 1980, stealing $80 and his car during a drug- and alcohol-fueled rampage.[7]  Transgender Law Center, which represents Quine stated the surgery not only fulfills a landmark legal settlement but marks a victory "for all transgender people who have ever been denied the medical care we need"

  1. A convicted killer became the first U.S. inmate to get state-funded gender-reassignment surgery https://www.washingtonpost.com/.../a-transgender-inmate-became-first-to-get-state-fu...  Jan 10, 2017Convicted murderer Shiloh Quine, who is serving a life sentence for her role in a deadly 1980 incident in Los Angeles, is currently recovering from the surgery, according to the Transgender Law Center, which represented Quine in a federal civil rights lawsuit against California prison officials.  In 1978, she said she tried to castrate herself.
  2. Killer, Shiloh Heavenly Quine, Sentenced To Life Without Parole Gets Taxpayer-Funded Sex Resassignment Blue Lives Matter  BY COWGIRL ON JANUARY 8, 2017   Shiloh Heavenly Quine will be moved to the women's prison after having gender-reassignment surgery. Shiloh Heavenly Quine Wastes An Obscene Amount Of Taxpayer’s Money  Los Angeles, CA – California taxpayers have paid for the sex change operation of a murderer, Shiloh Heavenly Quine, age 57.  According to Fox News Insider, Quine is serving a life sentence without parole for First-Degree Murder, Kidnapping, and Robbery, and was approved for “sex-reassignment surgery.” The surgery was done in San Francisco and Quine will now be transferred to a women’s prison.   Quine was born as a man, Rodney James Quine. He and an accomplice killed a man, Shahid Ali Baig, age 33 and a father of three, in 1980 while stealing his car during “a drug and alcohol-fueled rampage.” The victim’s daughter, Farida Baig, legally petitioned to have the surgery denied but was unsuccessful. She said “My dad begged for his life… I’m helping pay for [Quine’s] surgery. because I live in California.. It’s kind of like a slap in the face.”  California Department of Corrections spokeswoman, said “The Eighth Amendment of the US Constitution requires that prisons provide inmates with medically necessary treatment for medical and mental health conditions including inmates diagnosed with gender dysphoria” and that the state of California had to pay for the surgery, which could cost as much as $100,000. She also said Quine’s surgery is the first approved for transgender inmates in the United States and could lead to other transgender inmates to apply to their state for the surgery to be funded.  According to 89.3KPC, California prison officials agreed to the surgery in 2015 after fighting in court to avoid paying for these types of surgeries.
  3. Quine v. Beard | Transgender Law Center https://transgenderlawcenter.org/quine-v-beard
  4. Transgender Law Center is representing Shiloh Quine, a transgender woman held in a California woman's prison. Shiloh was denied gender-affirming surgery as ... 
  5. Transgender Prisoners: What an Inmate's Surgery ... - Rolling Stone https://www.rollingstone.com/.../transgender-prisoners-what-an-inmates-surgery-means-f...Nov 9, 2017 - On August 7th, 2015, Shiloh Heavenly Quine's 56th birthday, she and her longtime partner were hanging out in the day room at Mule Creek ...
  6. Transgender Inmate Says Women's Prison Is 'Torture' - NBC Newshttps://www.nbcnews.com/.../transgender-inmate-says-women-s-prison-torture-n7376...Mar 23, 2017 - In a hand-written federal court filing, convicted killer Shiloh Heavenly Quine called her new housing at the Central California Women's Facility ...
  7. California murder convict becomes first U.S. inmate to have state ... Los Angeles Times Jan 6, 2017 - California prison officials agreed in August 2015 to pay for the surgery for ShilohHeavenly Quine, who was convicted of first-degree murder, ...end a dysfunction and depression so deep that she tried to cut and hang herself in prison five times, most recently in 2014 when she initially was told she could not have the operation.  Quine said she tried unsuccessfully to amputate her genitalia when she was about 19, three years before she went to prison and roughly the same time she tried self-medicating with illegally purchased female hormones.
  8. Equal Justice Works | The Soros Files  Soros Funding: Soros has donated $6.5 million to Equal-Justice Works since 2005. Transgender Law Center is a Fellows Host Organizations where E-JW fellows are assigned to work, granting these organizations taxpayer funding to support their agendas
  9. Olga Tomchin | Transgender Law Center Olga Tomchin Soros Justice Fellowship
  10. Convicted killer still unhappy after taxpayers fund sex change  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/convicted-killer-still-unhappy-after-taxpayers-f...  Mar 23, 2017 - The victim, Shahid Ali Baig, begged for his life to be spared. It was not. Thirty-seven years later, the taxpayers of California funded Quine's sex ...
  11. Sorry, Baig Family! Love Wins Again | The American Conservative https://www.theamericanconservative.com/.../baig-quine-transgender-inmate-surgery/ Jan 6, 2017 - Quine and an accomplice kidnapped and fatally shot 33-year-old Shahid Ali Baig, a father of three, in downtown Los Angeles in February 1980, ... “I’m in severe pain,” she wrote in a prison appeal after a state board recommended moving Quine to a maximum security unit. “I feel tortured and now being placed in future substantial risk of harm.” She has lived openly as a woman since 2008 and in 2009 began hormone treatment prescribed by her prison physicians. However, the prison system has denied her attempts to legally change her name, and she has filed numerous legal challenges seeking to require “sensitivity training” for prison officers and for officers to address her with feminine pronouns.   Who is Judge Jon Tigar?:  The issue of whether transgender inmates have a constitutional right to sex reassignment surgery was taken up by a federal judge in San Francisco, Jon Tigar, an appointee of President Obama.  Tigar had been on the bench less than two years last fall when he assigned himself to Quine’s complaint and appointed a team of lawyers at a San Francisco firm and at the Transgender Law Center to represent her.


Issues ongoing around transgender inmates | Complete news ...
https://www.idahopress.com/...transgender-inmates/article_2d59b62d-f853-56cf-8d59-2...
Aug 1, 2016 - BOISE -- Jessika “Jessie” Stover, a transgender woman, spent nearly ... Both transgender inmates castrated themselves after being denied the ...

Denied Gender Reassignment, Inmate Tries To Castrate Herself Ophelia De'lonta 
https://jezebel.com/denied-gender-reassignment-inmate-tries-to-castrate-he-5809390
Jun 7, 2011 - Another transgender inmate filed a similar lawsuit in California, and a lawyer for the prison health system argued, "A prison is not required by ...Ophelia De'lonta needs gender reassignment surgery. But the Virginia prison where she's an inmate won't pay for it. So she's been trying to do it herself. According to the AP, De'lonta is serving time in the all-male Buckingham Correctional Center for drug, weapons, and robbery charges, some of them stemming from her teenage efforts to steal money to pay for surgery. In prison, she's allowed to take female hormones and wear a woman's uniform, and she's required to be addressed as "she" — but the Virginia Department of Corrections won't transfer her to a women's prison, or pay for genital surgery. As a result, she tried to castrate herself in October, cutting her penis with three disposable razors for three hours. She ultimately needed 21 stitches.
Va. Inmate Sues After Gruesome Tries At Sex Change [AP, via SF Gate]
HOLMBERG: Freedom for transsexual robber means freedom for state ...
https://wtvr.com/2014/01/17/transsexual-robber-ophelia-delonta/
Jan 17, 2014 - So will the squeaky wheel get the release? It looks Ophelia De'Lonta is going to say so-long to the Virginia prisons that have been her home for ...
A Gender Variance Who's Who: Ophelia De'Lonta (1963 - ) inmate
https://zagria.blogspot.com/2015/02/ophelia-delonta-1963-inmate.html
Feb 12, 2015 - On January 28, 2013, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Ophelia De'Lontastated a “plausible” claim that the Virginia Department of ...
Transgender Inmate Ophelia De'Lonta Wins Appeal To See Gender ...
https://www.queerty.com/transgender-inmate-ophelia-delonta-wins-appeal-to-see-gen...
Aug 31, 2013 - A Virginia inmate is one step closer to getting sex-reassignment surgery. ... 53-year-old Ophelia De’Lonta, born Michael Stokes, is currently serving a 73-year prison sentence for bank robbery.... The evaluation, which De’Lonta must pay for herself, will determine whether the sex ...






Ophelia De'lonta | GLAAD
https://www.glaad.org/tags/ophelia-delontathe new web series Orange is the New Black brings focus transgender women in prison through a character played by transgender actress Laverne Cox, ...

Ophelia De'Lonta hearing in inmate sex change case | WJLA
wjla.com/news/local/ophelia-de-lonta-hearing-set-in-inmate-sex-change-case-93192
Aug 26, 2013 - ROANOKE, Va. (AP) - A transsexual Virginia prison inmate should find out soon whether she will be evaluated for sex-change surgery.
Ophelia De'Lonta to get evaluation for sex change | WJLA
wjla.com/news/local/ophelia-de-lonta-to-get-evaluation-for-sex-change-93343
Aug 29, 2013 - U.S. District Court Judge James C. Turk in Roanoke says officials must grant Ophelia De'Lonta's request to be examined as part of her lawsuit ...


De'lonta v. Johnson (amicus) | ACLU of Virginia
https://acluva.org/en/cases/delonta-v-johnson-amicus

De'lonta v. Johnson (amicus) Ophelia De'lonta, a Virginia prison inmate, has gender identity disorder (GID). She is anatomically male, but identifies as a woman. ... Gender reassignment surgery seems to be medically indicated, but VDOC has refused even to allow her to be evaluated for surgery.

Ophelia De'Lonta hearing in inmate sex change case | WJLA
wjla.com/news/local/ophelia-de-lonta-hearing-set-in-inmate-sex-change-case-93192

Aug 26, 2013 - U.S. District Court Judge James C. Turk in Roanoke told lawyers for Ophelia De'Lontaon Monday that he would rule promptly. Born Michael A.

Ophelia De'Lonta to get evaluation for sex change | WJLA
wjla.com/news/local/ophelia-de-lonta-to-get-evaluation-for-sex-change-93343

Aug 29, 2013 - Turk noted that lawyers for the state indicated that if the court allowed De'Lonta's self-paid evaluation, that the state would very likely have her ...

HOLMBERG: Freedom for transsexual robber means freedom for state ...
https://wtvr.com/2014/01/17/transsexual-robber-ophelia-delonta/

Jan 17, 2014 - It looks Ophelia De'Lonta is going to say so-long to the Virginia prisons ... gender-issue attorneys in the country, Alan Schoenfeld of New York, ...

A Gender Variance Who's Who
https://zagria.blogspot.com/2012/11/#.XOLNKlJKhyw
Ophelia De’lonta, Virginia, 70 years for armed robbery, had won a court order in 2004 to receive hormonal therapy, attempted self-castration. Ophelia De’lonta, 50, who was born Michael Stokes, has been in prison since 1978 on robbery, drugs and weapons charges. De’lonta claims she needs the surgery to treat her gender identity disorder. “This is not something that I have any control over,” she said. “This is just how I was born.” De’lonta won a court order in 2004 to allow her to take hormones which helped her grow breasts. She has attempted self-surgery several times in the past. But last winter, De’lonta “snapped” when a prison guard at the all-male Buckingham Correctional Centre referred to her as “he”. “I screamed ‘She, dammit!’ becoming so overwhelmed it was hard to breathe,” said De’lonta.  told the Associated Press that she felt all her problems would be solved if she could rid herself of male genitalia: “It’s like if this doesn’t exist, then I won’t have any more problems.”  Trans inmates in five other states – Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Colorado, California and Idaho – also have sued in order to get prison doctors to perform such surgery. Four of the cases have failed, but a decision in the Massachusetts case is pending.

DE'LONTA v. PEARSON | E.D. Va. | Judgment | Law | CaseMine
https://www.casemine.com/judgement/us/5914af75add7b0493474cf89

Ophelia De'Lonta is a pre-operative transsexual who has received psychological counseling and hormone therapy for gender identity disorder from the Virginia ...

DE LONTA v. Donald Swetter, M.D., Defendant. | FindLaw
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-4th-circuit/1047118.html

Case opinion for US 4th Circuit DE LONTA v. ... Assistant Attorney General, Office of the AttorneyGeneral, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellees. OPINION. Virginia inmate Ophelia Azriel De'lonta (born Michael A. Stokes) appeals a district court ...

Ophelia De'Lonta v. Sarah Pruitt – CourtListener.com
https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2647334/ophelia-delonta-v-sarah-pruitt/

Dec 23, 2013 - Opinion for Ophelia De'Lonta v. Sarah Pruitt — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal ...

Were These Transgender Prisoners Paroled — Or Just Kicked Out ...
https://www.themarshallproject.org/.../were-these-transgender-prisoners-paroled-or-jus...

Oct 8, 2015 - In Georgia, Ashley Diamond, who successfully sued the state for access ... And in Virginia, Ophelia De'lonta was granted parole last year, less than six ... “It's a clear pattern,” said attorney Chase Strangio of the American Civil ...

Court dismisses abuse allegations by transgender inmate | GLAAD
https://www.glaad.org/blog/court-dismisses-abuse-allegations-transgender-inmate

Jul 19, 2013 - Ophelia De'lonta, a transgender woman of color incarcerated in a men's ... for realities facing trans inmates, though, is how Attorney Jackson's ...
Transgender inmate loses abuse case - NBC12.com representing self accuses prison guard
https://www.nbc12.com/story/22881322/transgender-inmate-loses-abuse-case

Jul 19, 2013 - Transgender Virginia inmate Ophelia De'lonta represented herself before the all ... NBC12 asked Attorney Jackson if they took the sex abuse ... Ophelia has been hospitalized many times, close to death, after attempts to self castrate. She's alleged for years, placing her in a men's prison makes her a target for abuse. Ophelia told us about the alleged inappropriate touching at Buckingham Prison, involving female Correctional Officer Sarah Pruitt, in an interview in 2011.     
"She reached toward me, between my legs, and touched me. I said, that don't work. She made the comment, I'll make it work," she said.  Attorney Jackson says Ophelia lives in a world of make believe and the jury just didn't buy it.  "She suggested that my client used the correctional center as her personal playground, very dramatic language. We know, just common sense, if a correctional officer were to engage in that kind of behavior on a regular basis they wouldn't have lasted that long. She exaggerates and I think the jury didn't believe anything she had to say," Jackson explained.  Ophelia argued her 8th amendment right to be protected from cruel and unusual punishment was violated. Although Ophelia represented herself, Judge Turk allowed his law clerk to help her with procedural matters. Jackson says Ophelia had no witnesses, no medical evidence and the case was dismissed.  "I suppose one of the reasons she was seeking money damages was a backdoor way to get money to have the sex change reassignment surgery performed," Attorney Jackson said.


July 2007 Jenniffer Spencer Idaho transgender woman prison who castrated self won female hormone therapy 

  1. Castrated inmate wins hormone therapy AP US news   www.nbcnews.com/id/20059701/.../self-castrated-inmate-wins-hormone-therapy/ Jul 31, 2007 An inmate who castrated herself with a disposable razor blade after prison officials refused to treat her for gender identity disorder should have female hormone therapy paid for by the state, a federal judge said.  Jenniffer Spencer, who was born biologically male, sued the Idaho Department of Correction and its physicians, claiming that her constitutional rights were violated and that she was subjected to cruel and unusual punishment when the doctors failed to diagnose gender identity disorder and treat her with female hormones. 
  2. Castrated inmate wins hormone therapy - US news - Crime & courts ... www.nbcnews.com/id/20059701/.../self-castrated-inmate-wins-hormone-therapy/ Jul 31, 2007 - An inmate who castrated herself with a disposable razor blade after ... Jenniffer Spencer, who was born biologically male, sued the Idaho ...
  3. Inmate sues for estrogen therapy | The Spokesman-Review www.spokesman.com/stories/2007/jul/12/inmate-sues-for-estrogen-therapy/ Jul 12, 2007 - Jenniffer Spencer, who is biologically male and castrated herself using a disposable razor blade in her prison cell, claims the Idaho Department ...
  4. Idaho settles transgender suit | The Spokesman-Review  https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/aug/07/idaho-settles-transgender-suit/  Aug 7, 2009 - Two inmates castrated selves after being denied therapy  terms of the settlements were not disclosed, but the department has changed its policy for identifying and treating transgender inmates. The policy now limits the time inmates must wait for treatment, specifies how they may be diagnosed, and clarifies when they qualify for hormone therapy.  Josephime Von Isaak sued the state in 2006, and Jenniffer Ann Spencer sued the following year. Both inmates, who were born with male anatomy but consider themselves female, contended they were subjected to cruel and unusual punishment because they were denied treatment for gender identity disorder.  ... Isaak sued the state in 2006, and Jenniffer Ann Spencer sued the following year. ... Spencer was serving time on a 2000 conviction for possession of a stolen car and escape when she cut off her own testicles with a disposable razor blade in 2004 an apparent effort to rid her body of testosterone Spencer survived the self-castration, and prison doctors prescribed testosterone ...Spencer’s case, the state said a diagnosis of gender identity disorder wasn’t warranted and that Spencer had lied about living as a woman and taking birth control pills before her incarceration


Josephime Von Isaak Sued Idaho in 2006 self castrated in 2004  Sorus funded  National Center for Lesbian Rights represented case
  1. Idaho settles transgender suit | The Spokesman-Review  https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/aug/07/idaho-settles-transgender-suit/  Aug 7, 2009 - Two inmates castrated selves after being denied therapy  terms of the settlements were not disclosed, but the department has changed its policy for identifying and treating transgender inmates. The policy now limits the time inmates must wait for treatment, specifies how they may be diagnosed, and clarifies when they qualify for hormone therapy.  Josephime Von Isaak sued the state in 2006,  inmates, who were born with male anatomy but consider themselves female, contended they were subjected to cruel and unusual punishment because they were denied treatment for gender identity disorder.  ... Isaak sued the state in 2006,  Isaak, who is serving a life sentence for second-degree murder, said she was also compelled to  remove her own testicles with a razor in 2004 after the state failed to diagnose and treat her disorder. Even then, Isaak said in the lawsuit, she went without the estrogen treatment she wanted, and a year after self-castrating she amputated the tip of her penis with a razor blade.    state cited Isaak’s birth gender and schizophrenia diagnosis when it denied her female hormones and a surgical sex change
  2. Transgender inmate's suit upheld | The Spokesman-Review  www.spokesman.com/stories/2007/oct/10/transgender-inmates-suit-upheld/  Oct 10, 2007 - Josephime Von Isaak, who legally changed her name from Augustus Joseph Isaak last year, says she is a male-to-female transsexual who ...
  3. 06-033 - Isaak v. IDOC et al - Content Details - USCOURTS-idd-1_06 ... https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/...idd-1.../USCOURTS-idd-1_06-cv-00033-0  had Sombke, Defendant Jim Tibbs, Defendant Ralph Townsend, Defendant Keith Yardy, Defendant Augustus Joseph Isaak, Plaintiff Josephime Von Isaak ...
  4. National Center for Lesbian Rights – Gender Identity Watch  https://genderidentitywatch.com/tag/national-center-for-lesbian-rights/  Josephime Von Isaak, who legally changed his name from Augustus Joseph Isaak, is a male-to-female transsexual who suffers from gender identity disorder.   2007, a federal judge declined to dismiss the lawsuit of an inmate who claims the Idaho Department of Correction failed to treat him for gender identity disorder. Josephime Von Isaak, who legally changed his name from Augustus Joseph Isaak, is a male-to-female transsexual who suffers from gender identity disorder. Isaak claims that he was compelled to remove his own testicles with a razor after the state failed to diagnose and treat his disorder. Even then, the lawsuit alleges, Isaak went without the estrogen treatment he wanted, and a year after self-castrating he amputated the tip of his penis. The case was subsequently settled.  The National Center for Lesbian Rights represented this Man.  He is serving a life sentence for killing 53-year-old Jack Herridge in 1995.

Isaak v. IDOC et al - Government Publishing Office

https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/granule/USCOURTS-idd-1_06-cv...1.../mods.xml




... Boise - Southern civil 550 Prisoner - Civil Rights (U.S. defendant) Isaak v. ... Joseph Isaak Isaak Augustus Plaintiff Josephime Von Isaak Isaak Josephime ...
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9th Circuit Set To Hear Transgender Inmate Appeal | KUNC
https://www.kunc.org/post/9th-circuit-set-hear-transgender-inmate-appeal
One late afternoon in September 2015, a transgender inmate ... twice now to attempt to castrate herself, says Lori Rifkin, Edmo's lead attorney.

Transgender inmate's rights violated through surgery denial, US court ...
https://www.theguardian.com/.../california-transgender-inmate-violated-rights-surgery
Jun 26, 2015 - State prison officials may be violating a transgender California ... attempts to castrate herself – and the medically accepted treatment for her ...








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Idaho appeals ruling ordering surgery for transgender inmate ...
www.startribune.com/idaho-appeals-ruling...for-transgender-inmate/504129552/

Jan 9, 2019 - Idaho appeals ruling ordering surgery for transgender inmate ... that twice she tried to castrate herself in prison, using a disposable razor blade.

Judge orders Idaho to give transgender inmate gender... | Daily Mail ...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Judge-orders-Idaho-transgender-inmate-gender-surgery....

Dec 14, 2018 - Adree Edmo will become the first Idaho inmate to receive gender ... child abuser inmatewho previously tried to castrate herself with a razor.

A convicted killer became the first U.S. inmate to get state-funded ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/.../a-transgender-inmate-became-first-to-get-state-fu...

Jan 10, 2017 - Transgender inmate Shiloh Quine, sentenced to life without parole for a 1980 murder, recently ... In 1978, she said she tried to castrate herself.

Quine v. Beard | Transgender Law Center
https://transgenderlawcenter.org/quine-v-beard

Transgender Law Center is representing Shiloh Quine, a transgender woman held in a California men's prison. Shiloh was denied gender-affirming surgery as ...

Transgender Prisoners: What an Inmate's Surgery ... - Rolling Stone
https://www.rollingstone.com/.../transgender-prisoners-what-an-inmates-surgery-means-f...

Nov 9, 2017 - On August 7th, 2015, Shiloh Heavenly Quine's 56th birthday, she and her longtime partner were hanging out in the day room at Mule Creek ...



Transgender Inmate Says Women's Prison Is 'Torture' - NBC News
https://www.nbcnews.com/.../transgender-inmate-says-women-s-prison-torture-n7376...

Mar 23, 2017 - In a hand-written federal court filing, convicted killer Shiloh Heavenly Quine called her new housing at the Central California Women's Facility ...

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9th Circuit Set To Hear Transgender Inmate Appeal | KUNC
https://www.kunc.org/post/9th-circuit-set-hear-transgender-inmate-appeal

One late afternoon in September 2015, a transgender inmate ... twice now to attempt to castrate herself, says Lori Rifkin, Edmo's lead attorney.

Transgender inmate's rights violated through surgery denial, US court ...
https://www.theguardian.com/.../california-transgender-inmate-violated-rights-surgery

Jun 26, 2015 - State prison officials may be violating a transgender California ... attempts to castrate herself – and the medically accepted treatment for her ...

Idaho Transgender Inmate Surgery Postponed Until Appeals Court ...
https://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/.../idaho-transgender-inmate-surgery-postponed...

Mar 21, 2019 - She's twice attempted to castrate herself, without success. Her lawyers argue that denying her sex reassignment surgery constitutes cruel and ...

Denied Gender Reassignment, Inmate Tries To Castrate Herself
https://jezebel.com/denied-gender-reassignment-inmate-tries-to-castrate-he-5809390

Jun 7, 2011 - Another transgender inmate filed a similar lawsuit in California, and a lawyer for the prison health system argued, "A prison is not required by ...

Castrated inmate wins hormone therapy - US news - Crime & courts ...
www.nbcnews.com/id/20059701/.../self-castrated-inmate-wins-hormone-therapy/

Jul 31, 2007 - An inmate who castrated herself with a disposable razor blade after ... Transgendered prisoner who sued will get estrogen, paid for by the state ...

Issues ongoing around transgender inmates | Complete news ...
https://www.idahopress.com/...transgender-inmates/article_2d59b62d-f853-56cf-8d59-2...

Aug 1, 2016 - BOISE -- Jessika “Jessie” Stover, a transgender woman, spent nearly ... Both transgender inmates castrated themselves after being denied the ...


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