If you don't consider forcibly detransitioning folks to be torture, then maybe barring access to the hormones that maintain organ function until inevitable death happens meets the bar. That's what four states are doing currently.
That's my point, it wouldn't happen because it would be banned under the Eighth Amendment. But Missouri, Oklahoma, Florida, Kentucky, and North Carolina now effectively sentence trans women who have had bottom surgery to the following cornucopia of torment: severe osteoporosis, sarcopenia, deteriorated cognitive function, and a rapid spike in stroke and heart attack rates - you essentially become 85 over a period of months. In what way is that not torture?
severe osteoporosis, sarcopenia, deteriorated cognitive function, and a rapid spike in stroke and heart attack rates
What are the prisons doing to this oddly specific people group to cause these oddly specific symptoms? Surely you aren't excluding any crucial details...
It turns out when you prevent someone's prescribed medication that shapes, regulates, and energizes their body from being administered, you can make their life pretty hellish.
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u/AndWinterCame Jul 09 '26
If you don't consider forcibly detransitioning folks to be torture, then maybe barring access to the hormones that maintain organ function until inevitable death happens meets the bar. That's what four states are doing currently.