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Supreme Court Declines Inmate’s Request for Sex Reassignment Surgery
National Review ^ | December 10, 2019 | Mairead Mcardle

Posted on 12/10/2019 12:15:52 PM PST by karpov

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a convicted murderer’s appeal to receive gender reassignment surgery, leaving in place a lower court’s 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 prison’s refusal to grant the surgery violates the Constitution’s 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 man’s 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 Circuit’s 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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 5thcircuit; federalistsociety; fifthcircuit; genitalmutilation; jamesho; judiciary; scotus; supremecourt; transgender; trumpjudge
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Good. He is eligible for parole in 2021, and if he gets it, let him get a job and save money to pay for his "reassignment".

The Supreme Court did not hear the case. The leftists on the court may be waiting to consider this issue until there is a majority willing to invent a right to government-funded genital mutilation.

1 posted on 12/10/2019 12:15:52 PM PST by karpov
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To: karpov
Thank you SCOTUS!
2 posted on 12/10/2019 12:18:08 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Pledge: "...and to the Democracy for which it stands..." I give up. Use the democRat meme...)
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To: karpov

Well,”living as a woman” will make doing time easier for him. At least when some guy wants to “get friendly” with him in the shower he just might enjoy it.


3 posted on 12/10/2019 12:18:54 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election)
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To: DoughtyOne

Common sense.


4 posted on 12/10/2019 12:19:54 PM PST by Midwesterner53
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To: karpov

HO HO HO!!!


5 posted on 12/10/2019 12:24:00 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: karpov

No means No!


6 posted on 12/10/2019 12:26:27 PM PST by lee martell
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To: karpov

He / she will charge the cost of gender reassignment surgery to Obamacare.


7 posted on 12/10/2019 12:30:29 PM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: karpov

Good is right. The dept of corrections (aka taxpayers) isn’t responsible in any way for your particular perversion/problem. Be glad we gave you a stainless steel toilet.


8 posted on 12/10/2019 12:30:40 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: karpov

I’m not white or from this country. Would someone here school me on this :
Why are there many trans case where men want to be women and not vise versa?

Every story involved trans is men-to-women. I have not encountered a story involved trans is a lady-wants-to-be-man


9 posted on 12/10/2019 12:31:52 PM PST by Lee25
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To: karpov

Today’s lesson

XX, XXX, XO..... Female
XY, XXY, XYY.... Male
Smattering of minor variants
Androgen insensitivity syndrome
Various Hermaphrodites

All the other stuff is cognitive constructs
Or Med/Surg monsters


10 posted on 12/10/2019 12:37:59 PM PST by HangnJudge (Kipling was right about Humanity)
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To: Lee25

Some teenage girls have this madness too, unfortunately:

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/brown-university-criticized-over-removal-transgender-study-n906741 .


11 posted on 12/10/2019 12:38:46 PM PST by karpov
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To: Lee25

They are around!


12 posted on 12/10/2019 12:40:29 PM PST by V V Camp Enari 67-68 (Viet Vet)
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To: Lee25

My guess is that it reflects that on the whole women are less sexually aggressive and adventurous.

There are a lot more homosexual men than women as well. More men rape.

I love men, this isn’t a slam. Women do bad things too. But men seem to be exponentially far more adventurous, sexually and in other ways. Sometimes that’s a good thing.


13 posted on 12/10/2019 12:44:13 PM PST by Persevero (Desmond is not -Amazing- Desmond is -Abused-)
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To: karpov

Let him cut off his own.


14 posted on 12/10/2019 12:44:28 PM PST by libertylover (Democrats hated Lincoln too.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

You are assuming he’s not a lesbian woman trapped i a mans body.

Yes our world has gone insane. Looking up every day for Christ to come back and stop all this.


15 posted on 12/10/2019 12:48:28 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Persevero

Nope, women are a lot more adventurous and its far less taboo as far as society is concerned.


16 posted on 12/10/2019 12:49:34 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: karpov

“Here is a hedge pruner and a bottle of Vodka”
“Knock yourself out!”


17 posted on 12/10/2019 12:55:55 PM PST by Zathras
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To: Lee25
I have not encountered a story involved trans is a lady-wants-to-be-man

Possibly the most prominent is Sonny & Cher's daughter Chastity started to call herself Chaz.

FRiend just Google "female to male transition" and prepare to be shocked.

18 posted on 12/10/2019 1:10:14 PM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: karpov
It wants gender reassignment surgery?

Easy enough. I can lop it off in 10 seconds.

Image result for tree pruning shears

 

19 posted on 12/10/2019 1:18:35 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: Lee25

Just regarding the issue of prisoners — here, in Canada, male-to-female trannie prisoners are allowed to serve their time in women’s prisons. Women’s prisons are far, far “nicer” facilities than men’s & have much less violence. Most often these trannies are still-intact males. Apparently, the safety of female prisoners is not considered, when assigning male (fake female) prisoners to live amongst them. I defer to the other commentators here, regarding your more general questions.


20 posted on 12/10/2019 1:29:54 PM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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