Santa Ana, CA: Hormone therapy for transgender immigration detainees? about 40 transgender immigration detainees at the Jail who have tried for months to get hormone replacement therapy. They have shared their stories with the Heartland Alliance National Immigrant Justice Center, an advocacy group that has filed complaints with the DHS alleging that jailers nationwide have deprived detainees of "adequate health care" by denying them the therapy. Immigrant rights groups, the AMA and others in the medical community say hormone replacement therapy is not an elective or cosmetic treatment but necessary in cases of gender identity disorder. Those with the disorder feel a strong identification with the opposite sex, which causes intense emotional pain and suffering, according to the National Institutes of Health.
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