Reiyn Keohane/Courtesy of the Florida Department of Corrections
Overturning a Tallahassee federal judge’s decision, a split appeals court ruled that Florida corrections officials did not violate constitutional equal-protection rights when they refused to allow a transgender inmate to dress and groom like a woman.
A majority of the three-judge panel found that corrections officials “chose a meaningful course of treatment” to address Reiyn Keohane’s gender dysphoria.
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