In a first, California agrees to pay for transgender inmate's sex reassignment

http://www.latimes.com ^ | 8/10/15 | Paige St. John

[Salman]

It makes perfect sense in a way.

After all, inmates are not denied necessary medical care. Right?

So if some doctor says it's necessary ...

[pfflier]

suffers severe gender dysphoria that can be treated only by physically conforming her body to her psychological gender

So a mental illness can be fixed by surgery now?

[Mrs. Don-o]

Johns Hopkins research uncovered the fact, years ago, that gender-dysphoric people who "transition" attempt and successfully accomplish suicide MORE than the gender-dysphorics who do not "transition."

So Johns Hopkins stopped doing "transitions" decades ago.

AS for the rest of them: whatever happened to medical ethics?

h Surgeons who perform these genital mutilations should lose their licenses to practice. Criminal and civil charge might also be in order.

[Gen.Blather]

A surgeon said to me, (essentially), “surgery is as subject to fashion trends as hemlines. Different surgeries come and go and for the most part they don’t help the patients, but everybody is doing them. You have to watch for that.”

[West Texas Chuck]

Hold him down, I’ll give him a reassignment he’ll never forget.