A cohort of transgender inmates in Florida state prisons scored a mixed victory allowing them to bring a class action over access to makeup and clothes, but didn\u2019t receive class status over denial of hormone therapy. <\/p>\n
The group of roughly 180 transgender prisoners in Florida Department of Corrections male facilities can collectively challenge the state\u2019s new policy removing accommodations for inmates for wearing long hair, makeup, or women\u2019s undergarments, US District Court for the Northern District of Florida Judge Allen C. Winsor ruled<\/a> Wednesday.<\/p>\n The \u201cclass of inmates with gender dysphoria who are denied social accommodations is sufficiently numerous,\u201d and …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A cohort of transgender inmates in Florida state prisons scored a mixed victory allowing them to bring a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[14553,14555,14557,28,30,29,14554,14556],"class_list":["post-17458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-accommodation-of-disability","tag-class-numerosity","tag-cruel-and-unusual-punishment","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-lead-plaintiff","tag-prisoner-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}