WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) Tuesday declined to hear the appeal from the state of Idaho of a federal appellate court ruling which had ordered the Idaho Department of Corrections (IDOC) to provide medically necessary gender confirmation surgery to a trans inmate.
The ruling issued by the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho and affirmed by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is final as a result.
Adree Edmo, 32, had sought gender confirmation surgery while incarcerated due to gender dysphoria so severe that Edmo twice attempted self-castration the Idaho Press reported.
Edmo had received the surgery this past July after the high court refused an attempt by the state to block the surgery. Idaho’s Republican Governor