Jewboo
7th August 2015, 07:52 PM
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California has agreed to pay for the sex-change operation of a transgender inmate who said the operation was medically necessary. The settlement agreement was reached Friday even as the inmate whose court victory had paved the way for such taxpayer-paid surgery learned she will not get it but be released from prison instead.
Gov. Jerry Brown's office announced Friday evening that the governor would allow inmate Michelle Norsworthy, 51, to be paroled without action by him. Lawyers for the state immediately filed legal papers seeking to drop the state's appeal of the order to pay for Norsworthy's surgery, saying the issue was now "moot."
Within minutes, the corrections department released copies of a settlement agreement reached with lawyers for Shiloh Heavenly Quine, the preferred name for inmate Rodney James Quine. That document shows that medical experts determined sex-reassignment surgery is a medical necessity for Quine. Without admitting wrongdoing, the state has agreed to negotiate a contract with a surgical practice to perform the operation "as promptly as possible."
After recovery from successful surgery, Quine would be moved to a women’s prison, according to the settlement. The state has knowingly moved only one sex-reassigned male prisoner into women’s housing. That inmate was reclassified as female after he castrated himself. Six years later, state corrections officials consider her location too sensitive to post publicly.
Linky (http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-transgender-prison-inmate-seeking-sex-change-will-be-paroled-20150807-story.html)
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California has agreed to pay for the sex-change operation of a transgender inmate who said the operation was medically necessary. The settlement agreement was reached Friday even as the inmate whose court victory had paved the way for such taxpayer-paid surgery learned she will not get it but be released from prison instead.
Gov. Jerry Brown's office announced Friday evening that the governor would allow inmate Michelle Norsworthy, 51, to be paroled without action by him. Lawyers for the state immediately filed legal papers seeking to drop the state's appeal of the order to pay for Norsworthy's surgery, saying the issue was now "moot."
Within minutes, the corrections department released copies of a settlement agreement reached with lawyers for Shiloh Heavenly Quine, the preferred name for inmate Rodney James Quine. That document shows that medical experts determined sex-reassignment surgery is a medical necessity for Quine. Without admitting wrongdoing, the state has agreed to negotiate a contract with a surgical practice to perform the operation "as promptly as possible."
After recovery from successful surgery, Quine would be moved to a women’s prison, according to the settlement. The state has knowingly moved only one sex-reassigned male prisoner into women’s housing. That inmate was reclassified as female after he castrated himself. Six years later, state corrections officials consider her location too sensitive to post publicly.
Linky (http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-transgender-prison-inmate-seeking-sex-change-will-be-paroled-20150807-story.html)
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