Convicted Killer Wants State To Pay For Sex Change Operation

Let's not pussy foot around here shall we? (pun intended). This convicted murderer is suing to have a sex operation and to have it done at tax payer expense. Now, inmates do have a right to medical care. But only to medical care that is medically necessary. I'm sorry, there are many trans-gendered people out there who really feel that this type of operation is medically necessary, but it simply isn't.

If you want a sex change operation, go for it. That's your body and your business. When you are a convicted murderer and you want tax payers to foot the bill, then it's my business. Of course, leave it up to bureaucrats to screw it up even further.

An Associated Press review of the case, including figures obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests and interviews, found that the Correction Department and its outside health care provider have spent more than $52,000 on experts to testify about an operation that would cost about $20,000.

So it's cost $52,000 to tell someone "fuck no"?

The duration and expense of the case have outraged some lawmakers who insist that taxpayers should not have to pay for inmates to have surgery that most private insurers reject as elective.

"They are prisoners. They are there because they've broken the law," said Republican state Sen. Scott Brown, who unsuccessfully introduced a bill to ban sex-change surgery for inmates. "Other folks, people who want to get these types of surgeries, they have to go through their insurance carrier or save up for it and do it independently. Yet if you are in prison, you can do it for nothing? That doesn't make a lot of sense."

Exactly. Everyone else who is a law abiding citizen that wants this surgery either goes through their insurance provider (which they generally say is an elective surgery) or they work their asses off and save for the surgery. This guy is no different. If he wants the surgery so badly, then he can work in the prison laundry making 35 cents an hour and save up for it. Don't want to save up for it? Tough shit. You shouldn't have killed that woman.

Travis
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