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State settles with inmate seeking hormone therapy

neb-state-seal-featureLINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Attorney General’s office has agreed to settle a civil rights lawsuit filed against a state prison’s medical director for refusing to provide hormone therapy to an inmate.

The terms of the settlement that was reached this week have not been released.

In a lawsuit filed last year, Riley Shadle accused Dr. Randy Kohl of denying her hormone therapy treatment for gender identity disorder. According to a letter from the Lincoln Correctional Center warden, the state denied the request because it was considered an elective treatment.

In February, a judge allowed the case to go forward on an Eighth Amendment claim alleging prison officials had failed to provide adequate care for a serious medical need.

Shadle, who was convicted under the name Dillon Shadle and later legally changed her name, was born male but identifies as female, according to court records.

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