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NORSWORTHY v. BEARD

No. 15-15712.

802 F.3d 1090 (2015)

Michelle-Lael B. NORSWORTHY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jeffrey BEARD, CDCR Secretary; M.E. Spearman, CTF Warden; Raymond J. Coffin; Jared Lozano; A. Adams, Chief Medical Executive of CTF, Soledad, CA; A. Newton; David Van Leer; L.D. Zamora, CDCR Appeals Chief, Sacramento, CA, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed October 5, 2015.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jose A. Zelidon-Zepeda , Deputy Attorney General; Thomas S. Patterson ; Supervising Deputy Attorney General; Jonathan L. Wolff , Senior Assistant Attorney General; Kamala D. Harris , Attorney General of California, San Francisco, CA, for Defendants-Appellants.

Herman J. Hoying and Christopher J. Banks , Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, San Francisco, CA; Ilona M. Turner , Jennifer Orthwein, and Shawn T. Meerkamper , Transgender Law Center, Oakland, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Paul R.Q. Wolfson and Thomas C. Kost , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Washington, DC; Alan E. Schoenfeld and Adriel I. Cepeda Derieux , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, New York, N.Y.; Felicia H. Ellsworth , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Boston, MA, for Amici Curiae American Civil Liberties Union et al.

Sanford Jay Rosen and Aaron J. Fischer , Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Amici Curiae Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom.

Barry Levenstam , Jenner & Block LLP, Chicago, IL; Lisa J. Kohn , Jenner & Block LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Devi M. Rao , Jenner & Block LLP, Washington, DC, for Amici Curiae Medical and Mental Health Professionals: World Professional Association for Transgender Health and GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBT Equality.

Before: STEPHEN REINHARDT, A. WALLACE TASHIMA, and CONSUELO M. CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

Plaintiff Michelle Norsworthy, a transgendered woman, has been incarcerated in the California prison system since 1987. In 2000, she was diagnosed with gender dysphoria and, several years thereafter, petitioned the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation ("CDCR") for sex reassignment surgery, a procedure that...

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