Een HOT topic in de V.S.

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Alexandra
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Lid geworden op: 20 aug 2012, 12:15
Gender: Vrouw

Re: Een HOT topic in de V.S.

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Ik vind dat die rechter een prima besluit heeft genomen, ongeacht de controverse. Dat geeft blijk van een keurige rechter die onafhankelijk en onbevooroordeeld een oordeel heeft moet vellen. Ik vind het erg knap als je dat kunt.
The body is a temple. Know yourself, and you shall know the gods. — Ancient Egyptian Proverb
MichelleH
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Lid geworden op: 15 jul 2012, 02:28
Gender: Onzeker
Locatie: Tilburg

Re: Een HOT topic in de V.S.

Bericht door MichelleH »

Ik kan iedereen het lezen van de uitspraak aanraden: http://pacer.mad.uscourts.gov/dc/cgi-bi ... cision.pdf" target="_blank

De uitspraak is in totaal 128 pagina's, maar de eerste twintig pagina's zijn de samenvatting van de uitspraak. Dit is de samenvatting van de samenvatting:
In the instant case, Kosilek alleges that his rights under the Eighth Amendment are being violated by the DOC's refusal to provide him with the sex reassignment surgery that, following the Standards of Care, the DOC's doctors have found to be the only adequate treatment for the severe gender identity disorder from which Kosilek suffers. Kosilek still severely suffers from this major mental illness despite the fact that he is receiving psychotherapy and female hormones. After a long period of pretense and prevarication, DOC Commissioner Kathleen Dennehy testified in 2006 that she understood and accepted the DOC doctors' view that Kosilek is at substantial risk of serious harm and that sex reassignment surgery is the only adequate treatment for his condition.
However, she claimed that providing such treatment would create insurmountable security problems and that she denied Kosilek sex reassignment surgery because of those security considerations.
Kosilek has proven, however, that the Commissioner's purported security concerns are a pretext to mask the real reason for the decision to deny him sex reassignment surgery – a fear of controversy, criticism, ridicule, and scorn. Therefore, Kosilek has proven that the DOC is violating his rights under the Eighth Amendment. He has also established that this violation will continue if the court does not now order the DOC to provide the treatment its doctors have prescribed. Therefore, such an injunction is being issued.
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