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A judge has ordered the Massachusetts Department of Corrections to provide a sex-change surgery to in an inmate serving life in prison for murder. Robert Kosilek murdered his wife in 1990, but identifies as a female, not to mention the cost of this surgery is at the expense of tax payers… Hit below to find out more.
A federal judge in Boston on Tuesday ordered the Massachusetts Department of Corrections to provide sex-change surgery to a transgender inmate serving life in prison for murder, ruling that failure to do so violated the prisoner’s Eighth Amendment right to adequate treatment.
U.S. District Judge Mark Wolf ruled in the case of Michelle Kosilek, born as Robert Kosilek, who is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole for murdering his wife in 1990. Kosilek who identifies as female, has received hormone treatments and lives as a woman in an all-male prison.
Wolf found that surgery is the “only adequate treatment” for Kosilek’s “serious medical need.”
