Elizabeth Warren Opposes Sex Reassignment Surgery for Transgendered Inmate

By Anna Breslaw | September 8, 2012 | 6:00pm

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Transgendered woman Michelle Kosilek, who was imprisoned for the murder of her wife as Robert Kosilek in 1990, was granted a sex-change operation by a US district court judge three days ago. In the 126-page ruling, Judge Mark Wolf “there is no less intrusive means to correct the prolonged violation of Kosilek’s Eighth Amendment right to adequate medical care.'”

Aside from the metric crap-load of precedent-setting decisions this will force the state and the prison system to deal with (where to house the post-op Kosilek in order to keep her from being assaulted by male inmates, the possible ramifications of placing her in a female prison facility, and so on), the $20,000 operation is on the state’s dime. In an interview with WTKK-FM, Democratic Senate candidate and infamously maybe-Native American Elizabeth Warren admitted: “I have to say, I don’t think it’s a good use of taxpayer dollars.”