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Federal judge orders taxpayer-funded sex change for wife killer
Associated Press (Boston Herald) ^
| 9/4/12
| Staff
Posted on 09/04/2012 10:08:54 AM PDT by ruralvoter
A federal judge today 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.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: convict; felon; gay; transexual
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To: ruralvoter
lives as a woman in an all-male prison That must be exciting. /s
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posted on
09/04/2012 10:11:48 AM PDT
by
IamConservative
(Well done is better than well said. - Ben Franklin)
To: ruralvoter
Wouldn’t it be simpler to just castrate ‘em?
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posted on
09/04/2012 10:11:48 AM PDT
by
Nevermore
(...just a typical cracker, clinging to my Constitutional rights...)
To: ruralvoter; Chode
Okay I am all for it.
Only one rule. He/she must remain in the all male prison.
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posted on
09/04/2012 10:12:48 AM PDT
by
Morgana
(-----------> Eat at Chick-Fil-A <-----------)
To: ruralvoter
I guess they must be flushed with cash. How can self-mutilation have become a civil right that others have to pay for?
disgusting.
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posted on
09/04/2012 10:12:56 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
To: ruralvoter
Democrat Family Values
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posted on
09/04/2012 10:13:55 AM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Whatever a homosexual union might be or represent, it is not physically marital. - F.Cardinal George)
To: IamConservative
Hopefully the knife will slip and he will have a 7 day period bleed and die.
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posted on
09/04/2012 10:16:33 AM PDT
by
Venturer
To: ruralvoter
It’s amazing who has “rights” and who does not in this upside down society
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posted on
09/04/2012 10:17:21 AM PDT
by
Scotswife
To: ruralvoter
The operation could be performed fairly simply just by flying in a couple of good Wyoming ranch hands with the proper tool.
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posted on
09/04/2012 10:17:46 AM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: ruralvoter
WTF is our criminal and justice system becoming?
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posted on
09/04/2012 10:17:51 AM PDT
by
commonguymd
(New media has not replaced the MSM. It has emboldened it. twitter @commonguymd)
To: ruralvoter
Aadorno’s “Critical Theory” in play.
Enough such acts by commie trough feeders such as this Marsupial Magistrates will result in lessened support for the Republic. That is the real reason for such decisions.
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posted on
09/04/2012 10:18:06 AM PDT
by
GladesGuru
(In a society predicated upon freedom, it is necessary to examine principles."...the public interest)
To: ruralvoter
The operation could be performed fairly simply just by flying in a couple of good Wyoming ranch hands with the proper tool.
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posted on
09/04/2012 10:18:16 AM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: Nevermore
“Wouldnt it be simpler to just castrate em?”
Yeah, castrate him with a hammer.
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posted on
09/04/2012 10:18:20 AM PDT
by
JimSEA
To: ruralvoter
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posted on
09/04/2012 10:18:52 AM PDT
by
jonno
(Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
To: ruralvoter
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posted on
09/04/2012 10:19:00 AM PDT
by
jonno
(Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
To: jonno
Remember, this is in Massachusetts. Scott Brown is considered a “Republican” in that state.
To: ruralvoter
Day after day of stories like this, and just about everybody seems immune to them. People no longer bat an eye. Yet I’m always thinking back to the America that used to be, where news items like this would have been so wildly inconceivable as to be downright sci-fi. Taxpayers paying for sex-changes for convicts...
The USA of 2012 is stark-raving mad.
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posted on
09/04/2012 10:25:45 AM PDT
by
greene66
To: ruralvoter
The money should be deducted from this clown’s salary!
To: ruralvoter
The patient.
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posted on
09/04/2012 10:26:30 AM PDT
by
workerbee
(June 28, 2012 -- 9/11 From Within)
To: ruralvoter
Ohhhhhhh.......Massachusetts........is this guy Johnny Walsh’s girlfriend?
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posted on
09/04/2012 10:29:12 AM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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