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Wisconsin Legislature Suffers Cognitive Disorder: Bans Care for Gender Identity Disorder  


Author:  Fred Cohen.


Source: Volume 13, Number 02, July/August 2011 , pp.25-25(1)




Correctional Mental Health Report

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Abstract: 

The 2005 WI legislation explicitly forbids a recognized form of clinical treatment; it implicitly rejects GID as a recognizable medical or mental health condition; and it implicitly seeks to overrule well established constitutional law that prisoners are entitled to appropriate treatment for their serious medical conditions.

Keywords: Fields v. Smith, 712 F.Supp.2d 830

Affiliations:  1: Executive Editor.

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