U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel ruled on August 5 in Casillas v. Daines, 2008 Westlaw 3157825 (S.D.N.Y.), that New York State’s adoption and enforcement of a regulation adopted by the Pataki Administration prohibiting the use of Medicaid funds to pay for sex reassignment treatment does not violate the constitutional right to Equal Protection of the law, and that an individual whose coverage for hormone treatment that had been provided for almost a quarter century until they were cut off by