Convicted Killer Wants Mass Taxpayers To Pay For Sex Change
by Matt Margolis, May 30th, 2006 at 11:47pm
As I’ve written about in the past, I’m disturbed by the whole concept of sex change operations, and have real problems with the state of Massachusetts normalizing transgenderism on the state drivers license renewal form. But this may be even more disturbing.
A man serving a life sentence for the murder of his wife is asking a federal judge to order the state to pay for a sex-change operation for him, saying that denying him the surgery amounts to cruel and unusual punishment.A psychiatrist testified Tuesday that he believes Robert Kosilek will kill himself if state correction officials refuse to allow the surgery and Kosilek is unable to complete his transformation into a woman.
Kosilek, 57, was convicted of strangling his wife, Cheryl, in 1990.
In 2002, U.S. District Judge Mark Wolf ruled that Kosilek — who now goes by the name of Michelle — was entitled to treatment for gender identity disorder, but stopped short of ordering the state to pay for the sex-change operation.
Since then, Kosilek has received psychotherapy, female hormone treatments and laser hair removal. Kosilek, who wears his hair long and tucked behind his ears, has developed larger breasts since beginning hormone treatments.
Kosilek sued the Department of Correction for the second time last year, saying that numerous psychiatrists who had examined him — including two of the DOC’s own experts — had determined that a sex-change operation is “medically necessary.”
We, as taxpayers in the state of Massachusetts, have been paying for this stuff since 2002, and, knowing how things are in this state, are likely to end up paying for this killer’s sex change operation.
Why isn’t there more outrage over this? The taxpayers can’t possibly be happy that we’ve already been paying for a convicted murderer to grow breasts… we shouldn’t be sitting silent over the possibility we’ll be paying for his sex change operation.
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1. GOP Bloggers | May 31st, 2006 at 5:15 am
Would You Want To Pay For a Convicted Killer’s Sex Change Operation?
I’m afraid that I, along with all Massachusetts taxpayers, may soon have to….