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Judge: Mass. must pay for killer's sex change
Topic Started: September 4, 2012, 8:16 pm (660 Views)
M. Hawbaker
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BOSTON — State prison officials must provide taxpayer-funded sex-reassignment surgery to a transgender inmate serving life in prison for murder, because it is the only way to treat her "serious medical need," a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

Michelle Kosilek was born male but has received hormone treatments and now lives as a woman in an all-male prison. Kosilek was named Robert when married to Cheryl Kosilek and was convicted of murdering her 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.

http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-national/20120904/US.Inmate.Sex.Change/?cid=hero_media
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BevS
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no wonder the taxes are so high- another reason why this country is going down hill -
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Rainbo
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Nearly all surgery for cancer is elective and if a person does not have insurance a hospital does not have to provide the patient with the surgery until the cancer becomes life threatening. Yet in Mass tax payers must foot the bill for a murders sex change operation???? Excuse me while I go beat my head against the wall.
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BevS
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they have money for this but don't have money for _____ (fill in the blank). :leery
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BevS
September 8, 2012, 5:45 pm
they have money for this but don't have money for _____ (fill in the blank). :leery
No, we don't have the money for this either but our stupid judges couldn't care less about that.
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cricket55
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:madnod How stupid.
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M. Hawbaker
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Inmate Getting Free Sex Change Also Gets 'Large' Reimbursement

BOSTON — A convicted murderer in Massachusetts who won the right to get a state-funded sex change is also eligible to have legal fees – expected to top $500,000 – paid as well, a federal judge ruled.

In a landmark decision, U.S. District Judge Mark Wolf earlier this month ordered the state Department of Correction to provide sex-reassignment surgery to Michelle Kosilek. Wolf found that prison officials had violated Kosilek's Eighth Amendment right to protection against cruel and unusual punishment, and that the surgery is the "only adequate treatment" for Kosilek's gender-identity disorder.

Wolf has now found that Kosilek is also entitled to legal fees.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/17/michelle-kosilek-inmate-robert-kosilek-legal-fees-sex-change_n_1890043.html?utm_hp_ref=weird-news&ir=Weird%20News

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Edited by M. Hawbaker, September 18, 2012, 7:17 am.
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Cloud Watcher
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:gaah :frusty :mad
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