1. United States
2. Mich.
3. Letter

Abruptly cutting off hormone therapy from transgender people in state custody is torture. It is not a policy position — it is medically dangerous forced detransition, and it violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. I want you to act now to block, challenge, and repeal any state law that strips incarcerated transgender people of medically necessary care. The courts have been clear on this. The Fifth, Seventh, and Ninth Circuits have all held that gender-affirming hormone therapy is medically necessary under the Eighth Amendment. Transgender women denied estradiol face real, documented risks including stroke and death. That is not a side effect of policy — that is the policy. Any state legislature passing these bans knows exactly what it is doing. This is going to end in costly litigation that states will lose. More importantly, real people are being harmed right now while legislators gamble with their lives. No one in state custody should be subjected to forced detransition. Push back on these laws, support legal challenges, and make clear that this kind of deliberate cruelty has no place in any state.