Class Certified In Suit Over Surgery Denied Under Gender Reassignment Exclusion

Mealey's (June 19, 2020, 1:36 PM EDT) -- TUCSON, Ariz. — A federal judge in Arizona on June 15 accepted and adopted in full a magistrate judge’s recommendation to grant class certification in a lawsuit by a University of Arizona professor who alleges that the denial of his request for a surgery to treat gender dysphoria violated the U.S. Constitution and constituted sex discrimination (Russell B. Toomey v. Arizona, et al., No. 19-35, D. Ariz., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 104303)....