Posted on 12/10/2019 12:15:52 PM PST by karpov
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a convicted murderers appeal to receive gender reassignment surgery, leaving in place a lower courts ruling in favor of the Texas prison officials who refused the inmate the procedure.
The court rejected the appeal of a Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling by transgender inmate Vanessa Lynn Gibson, formerly known as Scott Gibson, who claimed the prisons refusal to grant the surgery violates the Constitutions Eighth Amendment, which bans cruel and unusual punishment.
Gibson, 41, who was born male but has lived as a woman since age 15, was convicted and sent to prison for aggravated assault in 1995 and two years later convicted of murdering another inmate.
The inmate, who is eligible for parole in 2021, has engaged in self-harm and has attempted suicide three times, stemming in part from gender dysphoria, which Gibson was diagnosed with in 2014.
Gibson was provided with hormone therapy but denied a request to be considered for gender reassignment surgery. Lawyers for Gibson argued in court filings that the gender dysphoria, which causes their client to feel like a woman trapped in a mans body, is life-threatening in this case. However, Texas does not have a policy governing irreversible surgical intervention for inmates, the state said.
A state does not inflict cruel and unusual punishment by declining to provide sex reassignment surgery to a transgender inmate, Judge James Ho said in the Fifth Circuits decision, adding that the necessity and efficacy of sex reassignment surgery is a matter of significant disagreement within the medical community.
Ho also noted no other prison has ever provided gender reassignment surgery.
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sure is
Trump judge James Ho, Federalist Society member, re-introduces sanity to the Federal bench.
THIS is why the Lefties are Schitting their panties over Trump.
I know two young ladies who are transitioning to be men, taking the hormones and had some surgery.
Well, one was until she met some guy and now they are going to get married.
How he could fall for an overweight, lazy (no job) mutilated girl with a beard is beyond me, but there’s no accounting for taste.
There are even trans “men” comedians.
https://www.advocate.com/comedy/2013/03/18/5-hottest-transgender-comedians
The thing about trans “men” is, they are more likely to “pass” as men. In other words, they tend to be really butch lesbians who look masculine anyway.
If women are far more adventurous wouldnt more women be lesbians than men be homos?
Wouldnt there be more d to m crazies instead if more m to f?
Wouldnt more women rape and molest instead of more men?
I agree that perverted women are way more accepted. Straight men apparently often like lesbian porn. I dont think many straight women like homosexual male porn.
You obviously don’t count in there all the gals who have ‘experimented’ once or twice or throughout college, but then attach to a man because they like men ‘enough’ or ‘about as well’ and want the security and other amenities men provide as husbanks.
Well to include any such women Id be speculating. We need to deal with hard numbers.
In my experience many college age women pretend to make out as lesbians because it turns the guys on and makes them interesting and attractive.
The same cant be said of us and men. Most of us dont get into watching two men make out.
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