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Massachusetts judge approves taxpayer-funded sex change for inmate
Published September 04, 2012
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Michelle Kosilek and U.S. District Judge Mark Wolf. (AP/United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts)
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered state prison officials to provide taxpayer-funded sex-reassignment surgery to a transgender inmate serving life in prison for murder.
Michelle Kosilek was born male but has received hormone treatments and now lives as a woman in an all-male prison. Robert Kosilek was convicted of murder in the killing of his wife in 1990.
U.S. District Judge Mark Wolf is believed to be the first federal judge to order prison officials to provide sex-reassignment surgery for a transgender inmate.
Kosilek first sued the Massachusetts Department of Correction 12 years ago. Two years later, Wolf ruled that Kosilek was entitled to treatment for gender-identity disorder but stopped short of ordering surgery. Kosilek sued again in 2005, arguing that the surgery is a medical necessity.
In his ruling Tuesday, Wolf found that surgery is the "only adequate treatment" for Kosilek's "serious medical need."
"The court finds that there is no less intrusive means to correct the prolonged violation of Kosilek's Eighth Amendment right to adequate medical care," Wolf wrote in his 126-page ruling....................>>>>................>>>>................Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politic.....nmate/#ixzz25b6QjDPK
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"The court finds that there is no less intrusive means to correct the prolonged violation of Kosilek's Eighth Amendment right to adequate medical care," Wolf wrote in his 126-page ruling


Amd when everyone has mandatory health care, you won't be able to stop anybody from having anything they want (or "need") done.  Obviously, someone didn't check the definition of "adequate" prior to handing down the ruling.  


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Amd when everyone has mandatory health care, you won't be able to stop anybody from having anything they want (or "need") done.  Obviously, someone didn't check the definition of "adequate" prior to handing down the ruling.  



Romney did it.

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