State Must Provide Sex Reassignment Surgery For Murderer, Says Judge
Michelle Kosilek killed his wife in 1990
A federal court judge has ordered state officials to provide a sex-reassignment surgery for a transsexual prison inmate, convicted of murdering his wife, after finding that the treatment is the only adequate care for his serious mental illness, gender identity disorder.
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There is are no jokes, comments, or words of any kind that are adequate to deal with this story. We have arrived at the point of blinding self-delusion and self-absorption. Makes me think of the vomitoriums in ancient Rome.