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Federal judge orders taxpayer-funded sex change for wife killer
Associated Press (Boston Herald) ^ | 9/4/12 | Staff

Posted on 09/04/2012 10:08:54 AM PDT by ruralvoter

A federal judge today ordered state prison officials to provide a taxpayer-funded sex-reassignment surgery to a transgender inmate serving life in prison for murder.

U.S. District Judge Mark Wolf ruled in the case of Michelle Kosilek, who was born as a man but has received hormone treatments and lives as a woman in an all-male prison. Robert Kosilek was convicted of murder in the killing of his wife in 1990.

Wolf is believed to be the first federal judge to order prison officials to provide the 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: convict; felon; gay; transexual
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1 posted on 09/04/2012 10:09:02 AM PDT by ruralvoter
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To: ruralvoter
lives as a woman in an all-male prison

That must be exciting. /s

2 posted on 09/04/2012 10:11:48 AM PDT by IamConservative (Well done is better than well said. - Ben Franklin)
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To: ruralvoter

Wouldn’t it be simpler to just castrate ‘em?


3 posted on 09/04/2012 10:11:48 AM PDT by Nevermore (...just a typical cracker, clinging to my Constitutional rights...)
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To: ruralvoter; Chode

Okay I am all for it.

Only one rule. He/she must remain in the all male prison.


4 posted on 09/04/2012 10:12:48 AM PDT by Morgana (-----------> Eat at Chick-Fil-A <-----------)
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To: ruralvoter

I guess they must be flushed with cash. How can self-mutilation have become a civil right that others have to pay for?

disgusting.


5 posted on 09/04/2012 10:12:56 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: ruralvoter

Democrat Family Values


6 posted on 09/04/2012 10:13:55 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Whatever a homosexual union might be or represent, it is not physically marital. - F.Cardinal George)
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To: IamConservative

Hopefully the knife will slip and he will have a 7 day period bleed and die.


7 posted on 09/04/2012 10:16:33 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: ruralvoter

It’s amazing who has “rights” and who does not in this upside down society


8 posted on 09/04/2012 10:17:21 AM PDT by Scotswife
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BurdizzoThe operation could be performed fairly simply just by flying in a couple of good Wyoming ranch hands with the proper tool.
9 posted on 09/04/2012 10:17:46 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: ruralvoter

WTF is our criminal and justice system becoming?


10 posted on 09/04/2012 10:17:51 AM PDT by commonguymd (New media has not replaced the MSM. It has emboldened it. twitter @commonguymd)
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To: ruralvoter

Aadorno’s “Critical Theory” in play.

Enough such acts by commie trough feeders such as this Marsupial Magistrates will result in lessened support for the Republic. That is the real reason for such decisions.


11 posted on 09/04/2012 10:18:06 AM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is necessary to examine principles."...the public interest)
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BurdizzoThe operation could be performed fairly simply just by flying in a couple of good Wyoming ranch hands with the proper tool.
12 posted on 09/04/2012 10:18:16 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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“Wouldn’t it be simpler to just castrate ‘em?”

Yeah, castrate him with a hammer.


13 posted on 09/04/2012 10:18:20 AM PDT by JimSEA
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To: ruralvoter

Appointed by Ronaldus???

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Lawrence_Wolf


14 posted on 09/04/2012 10:18:52 AM PDT by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: ruralvoter

Appointed by Ronaldus???

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Lawrence_Wolf


15 posted on 09/04/2012 10:19:00 AM PDT by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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Remember, this is in Massachusetts. Scott Brown is considered a “Republican” in that state.


16 posted on 09/04/2012 10:23:41 AM PDT by ruralvoter
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Day after day of stories like this, and just about everybody seems immune to them. People no longer bat an eye. Yet I’m always thinking back to the America that used to be, where news items like this would have been so wildly inconceivable as to be downright sci-fi. Taxpayers paying for sex-changes for convicts...

The USA of 2012 is stark-raving mad.


17 posted on 09/04/2012 10:25:45 AM PDT by greene66
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The money should be deducted from this clown’s salary!


18 posted on 09/04/2012 10:26:12 AM PDT by littleharbour
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To: ruralvoter

The patient.

19 posted on 09/04/2012 10:26:30 AM PDT by workerbee (June 28, 2012 -- 9/11 From Within)
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Ohhhhhhh.......Massachusetts........is this guy Johnny Walsh’s girlfriend?


20 posted on 09/04/2012 10:29:12 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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