The Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution bans cruel and unusual punishment. Under that heading, state governments must provide “medically-necessary” treatment to inmates. While the law seems obvious in the case of life threatening disease, this case involves providing hormone therapy to transgender inmates. The inmates’ doctors argued that this therapy was medically necessary for their patients. The court’s argument did not address any particular treatment for any particular condition, only that treatments which are deemed medically necessary by an inmate’s personal physicians must be administered. The case was a review of a 2006 law passed in Wisconsin that prohibited state funds from being used for hormone treatments or sexual reassignment surgery.Read the entire article here: Supreme Court Lets Stand Ruling That Sides With Transgender Inmates