After an intense three-year legal battle, Cristina Nichole Iglesias, a transgender female inmate, is now set to become the first federal prisoner in U.S. history to receive gender-affirming surgery.
After an intense three-year legal battle, Cristina Nichole Iglesias, a transgender female inmate, is now set to become the first federal prisoner in U.S. history to receive gender-affirming surgery, after a federal judge in Illinoisthat the U.S. Bureau of Prisons had to find a qualified surgeon immediately to perform the procedure.
In 2005, Iglesias pleaded guilty to mailing a letter from prison containing a powdery substance purporting to be anthrax to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London. For Iglesias, who’s been in federal custody for 28 years, this landmark decision has been decades in the making. While incarcerated, Iglesias went through numerous medical evaluations. Members of her legal team provided medical research that they argued proved that she suffered from, the clinical distress that accompanies the strong desire to be of another gender.
Nancy Rosenstengel, then clerk of the court for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, testifies at her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee Jan. 8, 2014, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
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