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GIBSON v. COLLIER

No. 16-51148.

920 F.3d 212 (2019)

Scott Lynn GIBSON, also known as Vanessa Lynn, Plaintiff-Appellant v. Bryan COLLIER; Dr. D. Greene, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

FILED March 29, 2019.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen Louis Braga, I, Esq. , University of Virginia School of Law, Appellant Litigation Clinic, Charlottesville, VA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

John Clay Sullivan , Office of the Attorney General, Office of the Solicitor General, Richard Huntpalmer , Office of the Attorney General for the State of Texas, Heather Kriscenski Rhea , Office of the Attorney General, Law Enforcement Defense Division, Austin, TX, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before SMITH, BARKSDALE, and HO, Circuit Judges.

A state does not inflict cruel and unusual punishment by declining to provide sex reassignment surgery to a transgender inmate. The only federal court of appeals to decide such a claim to date has so held as an en banc court. See Kosilek v. Spencer,

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