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.
I don’t believe this one.
Good grief, it gets more absurd by the day.
Well,... at least his friends could have a ball celebrating.
Well,... ...two of them...
What a bloody good time for everyone...
...or, you might be insane.
Of course, to be a Dhimmicrat, isn’t that a pre-requisite? (The equivalent in PRC-Politically Repressive Canaduh, is Lieberal or NDPer, aka ‘dipper’.)
When I read that prisoner Jonathan referred to HIMself as an ‘Islamic-practicing transwoman’, I spit up my breakfast in my mouth! (I work evenings/nights so ya, ‘breakfast’.)
Jonathan should be released to Iran or Saudi Arabia, to practice HIS faith. I’m sure that relatively soon after arriving, the authorities would test him to see if he could fly off the top of an apartment building. Perhaps allah (PBUH-perditiin be upon him) would save him, or not.
I hope it hurt like Hell.
I'll take "words never before found in the same sentence" for $500, Alex
Sounds like this thing is a member of the GOP...
🤦♂️🤷♂️..........................
Boston Corbett who shot John Wilkes Booth castrated himself with a pair of scissors, because being a religious man, he did not want to be tempted by prostitutes. Last anyone knew of him, he escaped on horseback from the insane asylum he had been sent to, and was never seen again.
NEO-Con..................
“Hers” don’t have testicles... It’s a law of nature.
Now, that’s one question you will never see on Jeopardy:
“Who is Boston Corbett?”
Let them sue. Then ignore any Court that attempts to enforce such lunacy.
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He wrongly based his depression/ psychosis on the fact that he had testicles. “If only I didn’t have X, then my entire life would be better!” He bet wrong. He is still miserable.
He put all (both) his eggs in one basket.
Only makes him a eunuch, not a her.
Nope, just a eunuch…
- Inmate wanted his testicles removed.
- The testicles have been removed.
Objective achieved. :-)
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