Posted on 08/26/2019 6:03:25 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Depriving a transgender inmate with severe gender dysphoria of sex reassignment surgery is a form of “cruel and unusual punishment,” a federal appeals court ruled Friday, affirming a lower court ruling.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the state of Idaho to provide the surgery for trans inmate Adree Edmo. The ruling is the first time an appeals court has ordered a state to provide gender-affirming surgery to a prisoner, and the decision is at odds with a ruling issued earlier this year by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Idaho's Republican governor, Brad Little, vowed to appeal the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Edmo, who was featured in the Boise State Public Radio podcast “Locked,” repeatedly inflicted self-harm and twice attempted to castrate herself with a razor blade, according to court documents.
“Responsible prison authorities were deliberately indifferent to Edmo’s gender dysphoria, in violation of the Eighth Amendment,” the 9th Circuit ruling stated, adding it was established that "Edmo had a serious medical need, that the appropriate medical treatment was GCS [gender confirmation surgery], and that prison authorities had not provided that treatment despite full knowledge of Edmo’s ongoing and extreme suffering and medical needs.”
Idaho's governor decried the ruling as “extremely disappointing” and said the state "cannot divert critical public dollars away from the higher priorities of keeping the public safe and rehabilitating offenders."
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This MUST go to the USSC.
Remember that Obama wanted an elderly heart patient to “take a pill.”
Hand it a hedge clipper, a bottle of whisky and say “knock yourself out”
How about just saying “No”?
The judicial branch is not the boss of everyone.
Of course it will go to SCOTUS. Get ready for Taxpayer funded transexual mutilation for all.
SOURCE: https://heavy.com/news/2019/08/adree-edmo/
ADREE EDMO, FIVE FACTS YOU NEED TO KNOW:
1. Edmo Was Convicted of Sexually Assaulting a Teenage Boy & Was Sentenced to Serve 10 Years in Prison. While Incarcerated, Edmo Attempted Self-Castration.
Edmo has been incarcerated since pleading guilty in 2012 to sexual abuse of a 15-year-old male at a house party. Court documents read that Edmo has “viewed herself as female since age 5 or 6. She struggled with her gender identity as a child and teenager, resenting herself intermittently as female, but around age 20 or 21 she began living full-time as a woman. Edmo was diagnosed in prison with gender dysphoria.
She changed her legal name to Adree Edmo and the sex on her birth certificate to female and while in prison “consistently presented as female, despite receiving many disciplinary offense reports for doing so,” court records show. She was disciplined for wearing makeup and “feminine” hairstyles.
2. The Ninth Circuit Ruled There Was a ‘Clear & Urgent Need’ For Edmo’s Surgery. Idaho’s Governor Says He’s Appealing to the Supreme Court
3. The Victim Claims Edmo Was Always a Gay Man & a ‘Predator’
Brady Summers was the victim in the Edmo sexual assault case. Summers told local media in December of 2018 that Edmo, “…never once indicated anything of gender dysphoria or sexual indifference. He was a predator. He, on several occasions, had his way with me. It was brutal.”
4. A MoveOn.org Petition Was Created to Stop the ‘Sex Change Operation,’ But the Group Says the Petition It’s Hosting Doesn’t Reflect Its Progressive Values
5. As a Idaho State Corrections Contractor, Corizon Health, the Embattled Private Prison Healthcare Company Accused of Neglect, is Responsible For the Surgery
Why is NOT chopping off a guy’s #### cruel and unusual punishment but when a person wants their leg or arm removed (doesn’t think it belongs on them) it’s Cruel and Unusual to DO the operation.
And they go to South America to get it done for 25,000.
BTW, WTH!!! goes wrong with the brain that it obsesses about getting rid of an arm or leg.
And many are happy after they get rid of it!
I have a little Fiskars hatchet I just sharpened up. These things don’t have to be complicated.
men have a constitutional right to free viagra!
men have a constitutional right to free cialis!
men have a constitutional right to free asian massages!
respect our bodues!!
respect our bodies!!
lol
Translation: the medical health community agrees that long-term medication and extremely expensive surgery on perfectly healthy bodies is very beneficial financially to the medical health community.
He raped a minor. Let him go ahead and castrate himself.
Ridiculous. Ditto for the military.
It is VOLUNTARY surgery NOT required surgery. We need to stop this nonsense!
What did this person do to end up in prison?
Our judicial system has become a complete joke.
Insanity reigns.
RE: What did this person do to end up in prison?
READ POST #7 ABOVE.
Raped a 15 year old girl.
Insanity!
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