Posted on 03/13/2024 11:29:58 AM PDT by Red Badger
'We fundamentally disagree with the DOJ on key issues, and are disappointed with their approach...
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The Justice Department has threatened to sue Utah’s Department of Corrections after alleging that the state violated an inmate’s rights by refusing to provide treatment for gender dysphoria.
The DOJ said in a report released Tuesday that the inmate, who wasn’t named, did not receive gender dysphoria treatment for more than 15 months after requesting it. By then, the inmate had already self-mutilated, according to the report.
“After enduring repeated delays and denials of her requests for disability-related care and reasonable modifications, Complainant performed dangerous self-surgery and removed her own testicles,” the DOJ said, identifying the biological male as a woman.
The DOJ blamed the messy debacle on Utah’s “protracted, multistep process” to receive gender dysphoria treatment. The DOJ also noted that the inmate was denied the request to move to a female prison.
The DOJ is now asking Utah to implement reforms, including new policies to ensure inmates have access to gender-related healthcare. If Utah fails to do this, the DOJ threatened to sue.
“We hope to work together with you to resolve this matter cooperatively through a court enforceable consent decree that brings UDOC into compliance with the ADA. If we are unable to reach such a resolution, the Attorney General may initiate a lawsuit,” said Rebecca Bond, the head of the DOJ’s disability rights section.
In response to the DOJ’s findings, Utah’s DOC said it was “blindsided.”
“We have been working to address this complex issue, and were blindsided by today’s public announcement from the Department of Justice. We have also taken steps on our own, and as a state, to address the needs of inmates while maintaining the highest safety standards,” said DOC Director Brian Redd in a statement issued Tuesday evening.
“We fundamentally disagree with the DOJ on key issues, and are disappointed with their approach.”
The DOJ’s legal threat against Utah is its latest move in an apparent campaign to promote transgenderism in prisons.
DOJ Lawfare Last month, the DOJ filed a statement of interest in support of a lawsuit from transgender inmate Jonathan C. Richardson, who now goes by the name “Autumn Cordellionè” and is serving a 55-year sentence for killing Richardson’s infant stepdaughter.
Richardson, who identifies as an “Islamic-practicing transwoman,” first sued the Indiana Department of Correction last August in federal court after the state passed a law banning prisoners from receiving sexual reassignment surgery. The baby-killer’s lawsuit is being litigated by the American Civil Liberties Union, with the support of the DOJ, which filed a statement of interest in support of their motion to block Indiana’s law.
While Richardson’s lawsuit didn’t involve any removal of testicles, the inmate did disclose that “I have soiled myself rather than go to the bathroom, as I just do not want to see or deal with my genitals.”
The DOJ’s support of Richardson follows a similar move in Georgia, where prosecutors filed a brief in January to support a lawsuit filed by an unnamed inmate against the Georgia Department of Corrections. Details of the inmate’s crimes weren’t included in the filing.
Additionally, the DOJ settled a lawsuit last June from a federal inmate—former Neo-Nazi bank robber Pete/Donna Langan—who sued the Bureau of Prisons in late 2021 to obtain a sex change. Langan became the first federal inmate in history to receive a sex change in January 2023, but continued to sue the BOP to also cover facial hair removal surgery.
The details of Langan’s settlement have not been made public.
Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.
If the phrase “her own testicles” makes sense to you ... you might be a Democrat.
This bastard Garland should pay for these sick body mutilations.
“Her Own Testicles”
He should be facing a firing squad or a fitting for a hempen neckie and a long drop. Why isn't he?
Whatever the case, it’s a HER now.
No...it’s a guy with no balls.
Crazy people do crazy stuff.
Let me know when “he installs his own ovaries”. Idiots.
If an inmate insists on doing this, more power to him!
Being a eunuch is more than fine.
This was actually a statement said by one of the most powerful government entities in existence. This is our country now.
How can a “she”, remove it’s own testicles?
Exactly, this inmate is just a man pretending to be a woman.
“Crazy” is too weak of a word to use throughout this article.
“Self-deceived” is a little bit more accurate. Just a little bit.
Why is it that crazy people are calling on sane people to affirm the craziness?
And why is it that crazy people keep answering those calls? And answering them in a nurturing and assuring way?
We live in a perverted generation.
“her own testicles”
Even Lord Varys from Game of Thrones is scratching his head over that one.
I probably should not tell you this, but if “It” has testicles. “she” is not a “she”. “She” is a “he”.
He should’ve gone all the way. Why stop at the testicles? There’s work to be done here and I’ll help hold him down.
It could easily be argued that psychiatric treatment would be valid for gender dysphoria. No drugs or surgery is needed as long as the unstable person is incarcerated.
Take it to a Utah court.
EC
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