Trans Models in Prison: The Medicalization of Gender Identity and the Eighth Amendment Right to Sex Reassignment Therapy
Publication year:
2008
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 02, 2012
ANNOTATION: The right of transgender prisoners to get sex reassignment therapy while incarcerated is explained. “Through this examination, it argues that the criticisms of a medicalized conception of gender identity are either generally refutable or irrelevant to the trans-specific prison health care context. It goes on to argue that employing such a medicalized conception is both justified and compelled by unique aspects of the prison context” (p. 450). This article is divided into the following parts: introduction; trans models—the medical model and its origins and current application, the medical model and the law, criticisms of the medical model, and the self-determinative model; the Eighth Amendment—background and application to trans prisoners’ right to sex reassignment therapy; defending the medical model in the prison health care context—refuting criticisms of and affirmative arguments for the medical model; and conclusion—for broad-based advocacy.
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