Judge orders sex change for Mass. murder convict
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BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered state prison officials to provide a taxpayer-funded sex-reassignment surgery to a transgender inmate serving life in prison for murder.
U.S. District Judge Mark Wolf ruled in the case of Michelle Kosilek, who was born as a man but has received hormone treatments and lives as a woman in an all-male prison. Robert Kosilek was convicted of murder in the killing of his wife in 1990.
Wolf is believed to be the first federal judge to order prison officials to provide the surgery for a transgender inmate.
Kosilek first sued the Massachusetts Department of Correction 12 years ago. Two years later, Wolf ruled that Kosilek was entitled to treatment for gender-identity disorder, but stopped short of ordering surgery. Kosilek sued again in 2005, arguing that the surgery is a medical necessity.
JUST WHEN I THINK I HAVE HEARD IT ALL...
WHY IN THE WORLD, SHOULD TAX DOLLARS PAY FOR THIS...
WHY IN THE WORLD DID THIS MAN BECOME JUDGE.
WHY IN THE WORLD DOES IT MATTER WHAT SEX HE IS...
UGH.... SOMETHING TO MAKE ME SPIT NAILS RIGHT HERE...
They should make him save his money earned working in jail to pay for it. We pay for enough.
ReplyDeleteCRIMINALS ARE TREATED BETTER THAN OUR ELDERLY!!!!!!!!!
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