Posted on 11/06/2015 10:38:07 AM PST by wagglebee
SACRAMENTO, California, November 6, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – California has become the first state to not only pay for prisoners' transgender operations and treatments, but also move men and women into prisons of the opposite gender.
Effective October 20, taxpayers will be on the hook for prisoners who claim to have gender dysphoria. The change to state law took place after a years-long lawsuit from convicted first-degree murderer Rodney James Quine.
Quine, who was also convicted of kidnapping and robbery, is serving a life sentence for his crimes. He now wants to be considered female, and he sued to have the approximately $25,000 surgery to attempt to become female paid for by taxpayers. He won his case in August.
The guidelines for treatment include a committee that must consider other options before recommending surgery. Additionally, the "Sex Reassignment Surgery Review Committee" – which constituted two medical doctors, two mental health doctors, and two psychologists – must conclude that the "patient is in significant distress due to gender dysphoria" and that "the patient has continuously manifested a desire to live and to be accepted as a member of the preferred sex, including the desire to make his/her body as congruent as possible with the preferred sex, for at least two (2) years; [and] has lived full-time in his/her desired gender role for at least 12 months[.]"
Inmates who want the surgeries must have at least two more years before their expected date of parole or release.
The guidelines were described as "pretty conservative criteria" by an expert cited in The New York Times.
One analysis of California's prison records found that there are 363 men who say they are women in California's prisons, and 22 women who say they are men. The Public Policy Institute of California estimated in March 2015 that there are 112,300 people in the state's prisons.
“Do they have a penis or a vagina? That should make it clear as to which prison they go to. Same with which bathrooms to use.”
That does not matter - if they “think” or “feel” like a man or woman, that matters and that’s where California will send them. Note there are “363 men who say they are women in California’s prisons, and 22 women who say they are men”. Those women are going to find out the male prisoners will be all over them and use them like the women they are.
The 363 men will be in women’s prison and I have no doubt they will try to use those women, try to rape them as their sex organ is still there and functioning. Those women are criminals and may try to kill those men.
What a mess California is going to make by doing this.
Yep. I’m a little teapot. I demand to be put in the cupboard.
If I was in prison, I’d lie to get to a women’s prison. The only guy in the candy store.
In a related story, 129,000 male prisoners in California have declared they now believe they are women.
At least we are in the end-game here.
Such insanity and illogicality simply can not last. It will end soon. I don’t know what comes after, maybe its worse, but such nonsense simply never has had staying power.
I kind of figure they’d last six months then be
begging to be returned.
It will be fun and games until they realize all the straight women already left for the mens prison.
California: prisoners who say they are innocent will be set FREE
Have you actually SEEN the kind of women that are in prisons? Not in the various porn movies, but in real life?
Sounds like a weinner.
I’m sure the female prisoners will be happy to oblige them in finishing the job of turning them into women (i.e. snip snip)
5.56mm
As a child who watched a lot to TV i used to dream about living in California now you couldn’t pay me to even visit there.
Not in person, no... but I would still prefer to spend my 20 years with females than with a bunch of Obama's sons in the men's side.
Totally insane. The inmates are running the asylum. Western governments are in freefall. That’s what the Marxists have been aiming for all these many decades. Families and even the rest of the inmates have rights and should conduct protests of all legal sorts.
What a strange state. I am sure Governor Moonbean is thrilled.
In 20 years or so they might start looking good (enough).
As long as they can keep their “Outie” like Bruce Jenner there will be no lack of volunteers.
CA minus San Diego and 20 miles inland needs to be handed over to Mexico , because the 20 miles from the coast inland sure does not represent this country.
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