US Supreme Court declines to hear an appeal by a convicted murderer who filed a civil rights lawsuit because prison officials denied her request to be considered for gender reassignment surgery.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear an appeal by a convicted murderer who filed a civil rights lawsuit because Texas prison officials denied her request to be considered for gender reassignment surgery.
The justices let stand a lower court's decision to reject the claim by inmate Vanessa Lynn Gibson that denying the surgery request violated the U.S. Constitution's Eighth Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.
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