After a long court battle, an Idaho prisoner has become only the second incarcerated person in the country to receive gender confirmation surgery while in prison.
Adree Edmo received the surgery on July 10th. The Idaho Department of Correction, confirmed Edmo is currently at the Idaho Correctional Institution-Orofino to facilitate follow-up medical care, but she will be transferred to the Pocatello Women’s Correctional Center in Pocatello, “once it is medically appropriate to do so.”
The Idaho Press reports, the state exhausted a number of attempts at recourse in fighting the order to provide surgery for Edmo. Those attempts included arguing all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which refused to step in the way of the surgery followed.