This version of the story is corrected to show that the judge indicated the case may likely proceed, that the judge said he may reject the motion to dismiss and that the judge didn’t rule on a motion for a preliminary injunction. Zayre-Brown is scheduled to be released from prison in November 2024. At the time, she was believed to be the state’s only post-operative transgender prisoner. Explore life stories, offer tributes/condolences, send flowers or create a lasting online. The state had classified Zayre-Brown as a man and placed her in a men’s prison. Greater Charlotte obituaries from the Charlotte Observer and other North Carolina obituary sources. In 2019, officials moved Zayre-Brown to the women’s prison after months of review and the threat of a lawsuit. Zayre-Brown has been serving a sentence of up to nearly 10 years since 2017 after being convicted as a habitual offender on insurance fraud charges. The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals determined last week that gender dysphoria is covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Cogburn said the case is important to deciding whether people in custody have a right to gender affirming surgery and care. Lawyers for the department argued she failed to exhaust every possible remedy before bringing the issue to court. The ACLU argues Zayre-Brown, who is being held at Anson Correctional Institution, has been denied treatment and gone through the grievance process twice. He is expected to issue his official decision on the motions later. He did not rule on that motion.Ĭogburn also didn’t rule on a motion by the American Civil Liberties Union for a preliminary injunction that would have allowed Zayre-Brown to have surgery and receive prescriptions. District Judge Max Cogburn said he may issue an order to reject the state’s motion to dismiss and said he intends to hear arguments in Zayre-Brown’s case, The Charlotte Observer reported. Kanautica Zayre-Brown sued North Carolina’s Department of Public Safety in April, claiming the prison system has failed to regularly dispense Zayre-Brown’s prescribed hormones and has denied her request for surgical procedure to construct a vagina. (AP) - A federal judge indicated Tuesday that the case of a transgender inmate suing North Carolina for gender affirming medical care may be likely to proceed. His parents, Stanley and Becky, who are his biggest influences, are both retired social workers.ASHEVILLE, N.C. Here are the nominees for The Observer’s boys athlete of the week. Meet the nominees for the first Charlotte Observer girls athlete of the week of the 2022-23 school year. He has one sister, Tyler, who has lived in Houston for six years. Vote for The Charlotte Observer girls athlete of the week l 08.26.22.
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In his free time, Jonathan enjoys coaching youth basketball, trying new restaurants and hanging with friends. He broke one of the biggest stories on the Panthers beat in November 2021, when he revealed that the Panthers were planning to meet with quarterback Cam Newton with the intentions to sign him one year after releasing him. He has twice earned APSE National Top 10 honors for his writing and reporting. Sydney Idzikowski is the Associate Director of the Charlotte Regional Data Trust (Data Trust), where she works with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg community to both. He's covered a variety of beats in his career from K-12 schools, public safety, town government, recruiting, Duke basketball, UNC basketball and football at the Raleigh New & Observer, and most recently spent two years covering the Carolina Panthers for the Charlotte Observer.
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