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wouldn't the Army's failure to provide hormones and surgeries to Manning be a failure to provide normal and routine medical care? Her needs are somewhere between risk of immanent death and cosmetic, but I think they are more toward the serious end of that spectrum. For example, if a prisoner is morbidly obese, would the Army deny that person bariatric surgery?

For another comparison, prison systems seem to be more than willing to sterilize prisoners with or without consent!