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24 states back challenge to transgender inmate surgery ruling with nationwide stakes

FIRST ON FOX: Idaho and Indiana filed an amicus brief challenging a federal ruling requiring Alaska to provide sex reassignment surgery for prison inmates in a case that could reshape policy nationwide.Alaska is appealing the decision to the Ninth Circuit, seeking to overturn a ruling that found denying sex reassignment surgery to a transgender inmate violated the Eighth Amendment's protection against cruel and unusual punishment. Twenty-four states now warn that if upheld, the judge's ruling could force prisons across the country to provide transgender medical procedures.Idaho Attorney Genera...

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