Since 2017, only 20 inmates in the state have undergone gender-affirming care, according to a report from CalMatters.
Prisons across California are currently struggling to process an increasing number of requests by inmates to undergo gender-affirming care.
CalMatters, a nonpartisan newsroom committed to explaining California politics and policy, reported on Monday that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is seeing double the amount of prisoners requesting gender-affirming surgeries since last year. In its report, CalMatters added that the estimated increase in gender-affirming surgery requests is based on new budget documents.
Defined by the World Health Organization , gender-affirming care encompasses any social, psychological, behavioral, and medical interventions"designed to support and affirm an individual's gender identity" when it conflicts with the gender they were born with.
A wall outside a California prison is seen. Prisons across the state are currently struggling to process an increasing number of requests by inmates to undergo gender-affirming care."CDCR has already proactively implemented several policies, practices and procedures for the screening, housing, searching and treatment of incarcerated transgender, intersex, non-binary and gender non-conforming people," Newsom's office said in a statement after he signed the legislation.
Since 2017, only 20 inmates in California have undergone gender-affirming care, according to CalMatters. However, Monday's report notes that in the 2021-2022 calendar budget year, the number ofCalMatters reported that the new budget documents estimate that 348 gender-affirming surgeries will be carried out this year, and at least 462 will be performed next year.
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