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A federal judge has ordered Idaho to provide gender confirmation surgery to a transgender inmate who has continuously been kept in a men's prison. Barring any appeals, the ruling is going to allow Adree Edmo, 31, to become the first Idaho inmate to have received gender confirmation surgery while in Idaho Department of Correction (IDOC) custody. On Thursday, Judge B Lynn Winmill handed down the ruling in Idaho's US District Court. Winmill also shared that the Idaho Department of Correction and Corizon's refusal to provide the inmate with surgery could put her at risk of irreparable harm.
"For more than forty years, the Supreme Court has consistently held that consciously ignoring a prisoner's serious medical needs amounts to cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment," Judge B. Lynn Winmill wrote in his ruling issued on Thursday, Daily Mail reported. Winmill also found that Edmo showed serious medical need and that, if they refused to treat her medical condition, it could lead to further injury or immense pain.