Should Gender Reassignment Surgery Be Allowed for Inmates?
AdriHead
2012/09/17 22:19:25
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A judge is being both praised and condemned because of a landmark ruling in which he has ordered gender reassignment surgery to an inmate in Massachusetts. Roger Kosilek, who now goes by Michelle, was born male but has been taking hormone treatments and currently stays at an all-male prison.
Supporters say that the ruling is a great example of recognizing that the surgery is a legitimate treatment for gender-identity disorder while critics call it an abuse of taxpayer money. Do you think it's OK for inmates to get gender reassignment surgery with taxpayer dollars?
CBSNEWS.COM reports:
Supporters say that the ruling is a great example of recognizing that the surgery is a legitimate treatment for gender-identity disorder while critics call it an abuse of taxpayer money. Do you think it's OK for inmates to get gender reassignment surgery with taxpayer dollars?
CBSNEWS.COM reports:
U.S. District Judge Mark Wolf ruled Tuesday in the case of Michelle Kosilek, who was born as a man but has received hormone treatments and lives as a woman in an all-male prison.
Read More: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57506606-50...
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Chukroast 2012/09/17 22:39:48No
+25Not only NO, but HELL NO. It's bad enough we taxpayers have to foot the bill for his/her food, clothing and shelter (and basic medical care), but it's beyond my understanding why any judge would rule that a felon's feelings are important enough to soak the taxpayers for a very expensive operation.
Surely you have heard the saying, "The road to hell is paved with good intentions (of mistaken and "educated" people?). Another version says it is paved with Democrats. But if destruction is brought by mistaken, arrogant, learning-disabled "educated" people, is having been "educated" by false propaganda lies, really any excuse for continually choosing the wrong, especially since God knows, or has sent people like me, to tell you or warn you better, of the error of your wicked ways?
Do you think you can tell lies, perhaps based upon your false "education," saying "I didn't know any better," on God's Judgement Day, to the sovereign God who knows all, who knows even your "secret" thoughts and motives? Or do you think you might need a better legal defense, more rooted in truth then?
Furthermore, WHY are you discussing Al Gore and global warming? This is about being TRANSGENDER.
Do you also think aliens are draining you of life via a device hidden under your soap dish? Richard Chase held similar delusions.
Just saying you may want to tone down your "presentation." You're portraying yourself as someone who is mentally ill.
Honestly, forget what you read about transsexuals being flamboyant and all the negative connotations associated with it. Transsexuals are not drag queens, nor are they simple cross-dressers. It is not a fetish or desire for attention. It's a biological variation in which the mind represents an individual of the opposite sex while the body does not.
By the way, sex and gender are not the same thing. Sex is what we are biologically born with. Gender is a fluid concept and is something constructed in the mind.
dfinition of sex: "Either of the two divisions, designated female and male, of this classification."
seem the same to me! maybe you should stop twisting meanings! and look in the dictionary before you speak
Sex refers to male or female, while gender refers to masculine or feminine."
Ahem. Maybe it is you who should take to educating.
http://www.apa.org/topics/sex...
Learn a little before hurling insults and looking foolish.
if you mean transgender as a male acting like a female? he probably was abused and now is confused! a boy is a boy! or like new types of of education designed to confuse kids! yeah in some schools they make the kids question their gender, its wrong! boys are boys girls are girls! it always has been taht way, well until weridos like you came around! and somehow got control of society! ITS SICK
according to the merriam webster dictionary gender is refered to as either MALE or FEMALE! your the one twisting meanings if you say otherwise!
"a person appearing or attempting to be a member of the opposite sex, as a transsexual or habitual cross-dresser."
thats the definition of transgender! a boy is still a boy! even if he thinks he's a girl, when someone starts acting like that, you need to end that train of thought, especially kids!
btw sexual abuse on a child migth prevent complete brain growth! a kid migth not even be knowing what he/she is talking about when they say they want to be of opposite sex! you need to correct that! or they might grow up confused and become homsexual!
Lastly, I just looked up "migth" on dictionary.com and couldn't find an entry for it. Maybe you could help with that one.