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 Edmos 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 Edmos 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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Eff NBC “News” soyboy Tim Fitzsimons in his perfumed @ss...
That was so America could afford this shit instead of real health care.
I grew up in Idaho. The only Edmo’s I knew were from the local Indian (I mean Native American) tribe.
The last I knew, Johns Hopkins had stopped doing sex change operations because they found out that people were just as miserable after the surgery as they were before it. The fault, dear Dimwit, lies not in your pants, but in your head.
How about we find one potential trans of each type.
Then cut off their heads and sew them on each others’ bodies.
Then they would each get the complete package.
Meanwhile many law-abiding American citizens are having to choose between health insurance and paying the rent.
I think it’s a great idea. Anybody who wants a government sex change operation is braver than I am. When this guy ends up with his schlong sewn to his forehead, it will demonstrate just what a disaster government health care is.
He tried to castrate himself with a razor blade? How did he fail? Was this failure merely acting out?
Yes, 15 year old boy. From article: "Edmo has been incarcerated since pleading guilty in 2012 to sexual abuse of a 15-year-old male at a house party."
Tie a cord around the guy’s nuts and tighten it to cut off the blood flow - they’ll come off all by themselves...
Federal courts recognize no limit to their reach and power.
The 17th Amendment neutered the Senate and with it, Congress such that it has zero interest in checking the courts via their “Exceptions and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make” powers.
And I’m constantly told that an Article V COS is too dangerous.
The USSC must stop this insanity. Taxpayers shouldn't be paying for "severe gender dysphoria." Period. Under any circumstances through any taxpayer funded program including Medicare/Medicaid, or any publicly funded healthcare program, period. Not one single dollar. Ever.
My normie reflex.
Awful, outrageous either way. Sodomy is, Biblically, one of the "four sins which cry out to Heaven for vengeance."
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