A transgender Idaho inmate housed in a men’s prison last week received her first treatment in preparation for gender confirmation surgery, as ordered by a federal court, even as the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals is still deciding whether to grant the case another hearing.
It’s another step toward the actual surgery for Adree Edmo, a male-to-female transgender woman whose prison term isn’t up until 2021.
Prison doctors in 2012 diagnosed her with gender dysphoria, and in 2017, she sued the Idaho Department of Correction and its healthcare provider to receive the surgery.
At a court hearing last month, the judge ordered Edmo must receive the first presurgical procedure — a laser hair removal treatment — by Nov. 26. Attorneys representing Edmo in the case, confirmed to the Idaho Press, Edmo received the treatment that day.
