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California prisons break ground with sex-reassignment policy
MSN News ^ | October 23, 2015 | Bob Egelko

Posted on 10/23/2015 1:29:34 PM PDT by detective

After a historic legal settlement that will allow a California inmate to undergo sex-reassignment surgery, the state’s prisons will implement the nation’s first guidelines that would authorize surgical procedures sought by transgender inmates who are suffering from severe mental problems.

The guidelines call for panels of state health professionals to review appeals for sex-reassignment surgery from inmates whose doctors say their patients are under significant distress because of a mental condition known as gender dysphoria. The inmate must have been taking hormones for at least a year and have consistently expressed a desire to change his or her biological gender before an operation can be approved.

Prison officials have estimated the cost of the state-funded operations as high as $100,000. But the Transgender Law Center in San Francisco, which has represented two inmates in suits against the state, says each operation would cost $15,000 to $30,000.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; prisons; sexchange
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Taxpayers will now have to pay for hormonal treatments and sexual reassignment surgeries for any prisoner who wants it.
1 posted on 10/23/2015 1:29:34 PM PDT by detective
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This would have made a great sci-fi novel 30 years ago. Who would have have ever imagined this would one day be reality?


2 posted on 10/23/2015 1:32:01 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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Look at the bright side: Those male inmates who have their gonads removed will be less likely to commit crime, once their testosterone goes away.


3 posted on 10/23/2015 1:33:21 PM PDT by bkopto
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“Taxpayers will now have to pay for hormonal treatments and sexual reassignment surgeries for any prisoner who wants it. “

People who undergo this surgery tend to commit suicide at an astonishing rate. This may actually save the taxpayers money.


4 posted on 10/23/2015 1:33:40 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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Prisoners want a sex change operation? No problem.

 

 

Just call Mohammed. He's done thousands of FGM slice-ups. He can easily whack off your jack off too!

5 posted on 10/23/2015 1:35:51 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility)
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When will the State of Kalifornia be declared an insane asylum? I might move their for $1 million, but then I’d move right back out.


6 posted on 10/23/2015 1:36:04 PM PDT by windsorknot
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And when they change back, ala bruce/caitlan/bruce, will we have to pay again?

Do TransTrans get their on restroom?


7 posted on 10/23/2015 1:36:17 PM PDT by DannyTN
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the state’s prisons will implement the nation’s first guidelines that would authorize surgical procedures sought by transgender inmates who are suffering from severe mental problems.

And we look back and judge that last century's practice of lobotomizing violent criminals was considered cruel and unusual. I can't imagine what history will say about this.

8 posted on 10/23/2015 1:36:27 PM PDT by PGR88
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Gee I’m sure glad they’re not wasting my taxes on anything dumb and useless like upgrading dams and reservoirs or stuff like that.


9 posted on 10/23/2015 1:36:50 PM PDT by Argus
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California used to set future directions on all sorts of positive things.

Now, it points the way on drinking toilet water, “gender reassignment surgery,” gagging therapists who want to help homosexuals become heterosexuals, and other such matters.


10 posted on 10/23/2015 1:37:26 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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authorize surgical procedures sought by transgender inmates who are suffering from severe mental problems.


By definition, don’t these “trans whatever” people suffer from severe mental problems??? Think about it.

As of today, I believe that this “gender dysphoria” is still considered a mental condition by the psychiatric profession.

At one time, homosexuality was considered a mental condition, but due to political pressures, it was deleted from the official categories of mental conditions. Maybe the same will happen with gender dysphoria. If it does, it will be a political move to make some political statement; it will not be done to assist the treatment of people who have these “trans” conditions.


11 posted on 10/23/2015 1:37:37 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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What is the actual goal here for the left? What does this do to us as a nation to bring us down? I have read Lenin’s quotes and Aliskys. Which goal is this one?


12 posted on 10/23/2015 1:37:51 PM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11 HillaryForPrison2016)
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-—...that would authorize surgical procedures sought by transgender inmates who are suffering from severe mental problems.-—

I guess severe mental problems no longer warrants sending to the funny farm?


13 posted on 10/23/2015 1:39:42 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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“...the state, says each operation would cost $15,000 to $30,000.”

Like hell. The surgeries, the drugs, doctors, the psychiatrist, etc. Bet the real cost will be about 10X higher. The low dollar quoted is probably an attempt to make this seem like a trivial expense.

How about these confused folks get the surgery on their own dime?


14 posted on 10/23/2015 1:40:43 PM PDT by Made In The USA (Rap music: Soundtrack of the retarded.)
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Why don’t they just balls-for-boobs (or vice versa) swap meets in the prison yard once a month? Plenty of knives and pain killers available.


15 posted on 10/23/2015 1:41:19 PM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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Does the ‘sex reassignment surgery’ fix their gender dysphoria? I didn’t think so. That must be why so many are suicidal. So how can this be a legitimate medical therapy?


16 posted on 10/23/2015 1:41:42 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Spriiingtime for islam, and tyranny. Winter for US and frieeends. . .)
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The end result is providing more eunuchs and boy-toys for the burgeoning human trafficking+sex-slave industry, same as with illegal immigration (e.g. rentboys.com).


17 posted on 10/23/2015 1:42:27 PM PDT by Southack (The one thing preppers need from the 1st World? http://tinyurl.com/ktfwljc .)
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Aliskys=Alinsky


18 posted on 10/23/2015 1:42:45 PM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11 HillaryForPrison2016)
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Thanks....never thought of that angle.


19 posted on 10/23/2015 1:45:35 PM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11 HillaryForPrison2016)
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The California prison system will be giving the Nevada whorehouses some competition.


20 posted on 10/23/2015 1:46:50 PM PDT by Iron Munro (The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
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