Young’s ruling affirms that Indiana’s law represents unconstitutional discrimination based on sex. The judge cited the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County, which determined that discrimination against LGBTQ + people is a form of sex discrimination.

Yesterday, an Indiana judge found that the Indiana Department of Corrections (IDOC) was violating the law in failing to provide a trans woman inmate with gender-affirming surgery. They have been ordered to provide her surgery as soon as possible.

A judge ruled Indiana's ban on gender-affirming care in jail is likely unconstitutional, and an inmate from Evansville is at the center of the suit.

The judge’s ruling found that a law banning such care likely violates the U.S. Constitution’s Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction on Tuesday halting a statewide ban on gender-affirming procedures for those incarcerated by the Indiana Department of Corrections. U.S. District Court Judge Richard Young granted to motion,