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Massachusetts judge approves taxpayer-funded sex change for inmate

Until he has the surgery, he is a man. Some people might think they are a cat too, doesn't mean they are a cat though.
 
Her brain is female, and the brain is what counts. People who actually study this condition for living pretty much overwhelmingly agree that the appropriate course of treatment is to 'correct'-- to the extent our crude surgeries allow-- the body to match the brain. Your insistence on using the incorrect pronouns for people afflicted with this condition is nothing more than sheer, bull-headed, mean-spirited truculence.

People who actually study this condition are getting paid a lot of money and wasting a lot of their (and everyone else's) time. We'd be much better off working to fix the miss-wired brain than cutting its **** off. If that doesn't work, then we should be going down the same road we do with any animal that cannot maintain proper faculties and putting it out of its own misery.
 
The other prisoners should chip in and help pay for this golden opportunity to have some ***** in an all male facility.

TEEHEE because rape is such a funny joke!

This thread is disgusting.
 
Fixed that for you. Otherwise... I agree with you entirely. Putting new genitals on a lifer is like giving a nun breast implants.

I'm pretty sure he is already a lot more sexually active than Jenna Jameson and Sasha grey on overtime.
 
Her brain is female, and the brain is what counts. People who actually study this condition for living pretty much overwhelmingly agree that the appropriate course of treatment is to 'correct'-- to the extent our crude surgeries allow-- the body to match the brain. Your insistence on using the incorrect pronouns for people afflicted with this condition is nothing more than sheer, bull-headed, mean-spirited truculence.

Not buying it. We don't live in vacuums.
 
That may be true but that is still a private matter between a company and its employee. This issue is between taxpayers and the prisoner in question.

My quote was in response to those who thought that the state paying for SRS for prisoners would cause transsexuals to commit crimes just in order to get free SRS. I was pointing out easier ways that dont require you to spend long amounts of time in jail.
 
Anybody have any clue how much tax-payer funding has been provided to the family of the wife who was almost beheaded?

If the ratio is anything less than 10:1 I say kill this idea completely.

Second, can we strike a compromise? If he doesn't want his man-parts anymore I see no reason why they can't be removed.

Third, for number 2 - let a medical college perform the operation. Students learning to become surgeons.

Forth - only after he/she raises his/her own money by working (or private donations) can the desired lady-parts be built and installed.

Fifth - regarding number four - using the same 10:1 ratio - money must also be forwarded to victim's family before lady-parts can be attached.
 
Tax payers in Massachusetts should be furious. If a man wants to pretend to be something he is not then let him do it on his own dime.

Massachusetts judge approves taxpayer-funded sex change for inmate | Fox News

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered state prison officials to provide taxpayer-funded sex-reassignment surgery to a transgender inmate serving life in prison for murder.
Michelle Kosilek was born male but has received hormone treatments and now lives as a woman in an all-male prison. Robert Kosilek was convicted of murder in the killing of his wife in 1990.
U.S. District Judge Mark Wolf is believed to be the first federal judge to order prison officials to provide sex-reassignment 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.
In his ruling Tuesday, Wolf found that surgery is the "only adequate treatment" for Kosilek's "serious medical need."
"The court finds that there is no less intrusive means to correct the prolonged violation of Kosilek's Eighth Amendment right to adequate medical care," Wolf wrote in his 126-page ruling.

I don't think inmates should be getting anything but hospice care.

No dental care except extractions. (which we could show them how to do themselves)

If an inmate needs mental health care, he's probably in the wrong facility.


Although, I would support forced sex changes for rapists and child molesters before going into a prison general population.
 
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