Shame on federal judge, Mark Wolf, in Boston who ordered the Massachusetts Department of Corrections to provide sex-change surgery to a transgender inmate serving life in prison for murdering his wife in 1990.
What a waste of taxpayer money. The inmate, Robert Kolisek, deserves humane care, not optional plastic surgery.
Kolisek has received hormone treatments and lives as a woman in an all-male prison.
What about medical treatment for the working poor? What about providing free immunizations with preventive health and dental care in areas of the working poor? It seems there are much better uses for tax payer money.
The working poor are a class of people as a whole who can’t afford dental crowns, dental implants and optional procedures. They wait until the problem becomes an emergency, which costs much more to fix.
It was not known whether the Massachusetts Department of Corrections would appeal the ruling.
Kosilek first sued the department 12 years ago. The judge ruled that Kosilek was entitled to treatment for gender-identity disorder, but stopped short of ordering surgery.
According to the judge’s statement, Kosilek’s anguish from gender identity disorder caused him to “attempt to castrate himself and to attempt twice to kill himself while incarcerated.”
There are no easy answers in life. Most people are unhappy with some aspect of their life, or an aspect of their physical appearance. They either accept it or work to pay for plastic surgery themselves.
This individual lost his right to the pursuit of happiness as promised by the Declaration of Independence when he took the life of another.
To provide this type of treatment to this individual is an insult to those taxpayers in this country who cannot afford even basic healthcare, much less optional plastic surgery. The working poor even with health insurance cannot afford dental crowns, dental implants and other optional procedures. To require a working poor person to pay for this man’s transgender surgery is ridiculous.
There is also another reason this is a bad idea. Prison officials repeatedly cited security risks in the case, saying that allowing the surgery would make Kosilek a target for sexual assault.
Furthermore, there are no guarantees that if Kolisek has the surgery, he will become a happy prisoner.
Karen La Pierre