A transgender woman who has settled with the Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC) will be transferred to a women’s facility to undergo vaginoplasty, Fox News reported Sunday.

Christina Rusk, who was arrested in 2018 for felony drug offenses and was due to be incarcerated until 2024, was previously denied genital surgery by DOC medical director James Amsterdam. according to Fox News.

Rusk later sued the Minnesota DOC along with representatives of the legal nonprofit Gender Justice. according to Fox 9. (Related: Transgender inmate who raped woman in prison gets seven more years in prison)

Gender Justice’s legal director, Jess Braverman, said other inmates “heckled her, jeered her roommates… called her ‘that’,” the paper reported. .

According to Braverman, officials told Rusk, “You’re a man in a men’s prison. We’re not going to treat you as a woman. We won’t use your proper names or pronouns,” FOX 9 reported.

Minnesota now joins 10 other states and the District of Columbia in approving transfers to facilities that match an inmate’s chosen gender identity. https://t.co/6gkvFbm4Cn

—FOX9 (@FOX9) June 2, 2023

Minnesota DOC press release It has been confirmed that Rusk will be transferred to Shakopee, a women’s facility at Minnesota Correctional Facility (MCF). She is currently housed at MCF Her Moose Lake.

“The DOC is constitutionally obligated to provide those incarcerated with medically necessary care, including treatment for gender dysphoria,” Minnesota DOC Commissioner Paul Schnell said in a statement. rice field.

By adjusting Rusk’s transfer schedule, Minnesota “joins 10 other states and the District of Columbia” to “join a transfer to a facility that matches the inmate’s gender identity, rather than the sex assigned at birth.” ‘, the announcement continued.

The Minnesota DOC also agreed to pay Rusk a total of $495,000, according to FOX 9.