Overturning a Tallahassee federal judge's decision, a split appeals court ruled that Florida corrections officials did not violate constitutional equal-protection rights when they refused to allow a transgender inmate to dress and groom like a woman.
A majority of the three-judge panel found that corrections officials "chose a meaningful course of treatment" to address Reiyn Keohane's gender dysphoria.
"For better or worse, prisoners aren't constitutionally entitled to their preferred treatment plan or to medical care that is great, 'or even very good,' " Judge Kevin Newsom, citing another court decision, wrote in Wednesday's 40-page majority opinion.
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