SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- A 57-year-old convicted killer serving a life sentence in California became the first U.S. inmate to receive state-funded sex-reassignment surgery, the prisoner's attorneys confirmed Friday to The Associated Press.
California prison officials agreed in August 2015 to pay for the surgery for Shiloh Heavenly Quine, who was convicted of first-degree murder, kidnapping and robbery for ransom and has no possibility of parole.
Quine's case led the state to become the first to set standards that will allow other transgender inmates to apply to receive state-funded sex-reassignment surgery.
It also prompted a federal magistrate to require California to provide transgender female inmates housed in men's facilities with more female-oriented items such as nightgowns, scarves and necklaces.
"For too long, institutions have ignored doctors and casually dismissed medically necessary and life-saving care for transgender people just because of who we are," said Kris Hayashi, executive director of the Transgender Law Center, which represents Quine and other transgender inmates.
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9 comments:
Just another indication of how completely STUPID commie-fornia has become. Let's go back to 49 states..leT those idiots go.
Stupid does not even come close 5:38.
Well, we wouldnt want to deprive them of good quality sex while their incarcerated would we?
The eighth amendment says: Excessive bail shall not be required,nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. How the hell can anyone possibly say that denying a prisoner an operation that is not medically necessary and is a CHOICE the prisoner has made is cruel and unusual punishment? It's no wonder they say California is the land of fruits and nuts.
We can only have hope that the San Andrea fault will save America.Then California will float out into the ocean and hopefully sink. Plenty of food for the great whites.
"life- saving"????????????
Just stop paying taxes to for these redistributive Communists.
Thank today's liberal politicians for spending taxpayers hard earned dollars for such waste! Put that man in a hard working labor job and he won't have any energy left to think of sex! In fact, if they would go back to working jailbirds, they might think twice out doing crime!
The surgeon should be arrested.
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