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Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Cross-Dressing Murderer Suing Massachusetts Because He (She?) Isn’t Getting Sex-Change Treatments

Robert “Michelle” Kosilek is claiming that he isn’t getting his sex change treatments in prison and because of that he is turning back into a man.

“My breasts have shrunk, genitals have regained previous size and function, facial hair is thicker and scalp hair is thinner, all related to an elevated testosterone level,” Kosilek said in a handwritten letter submitted to the court recently.

Kosilek also claims that the state owes him a sex change operation, but perhaps the most fantastic part of this story is not so much the claims Kosilek is making against the Commonwealth of Massachusetts but rather how much Massachusetts has a accommodated him to this point:

In 2002, U.S. District Judge Mark Wolf ruled that Kosilek was entitled to treatment for gender identity disorder — including hormone treatments, laser hair removal and psychotherapy — but stopped short of ordering sex-reassignment surgery.

Kosilek sued again in 2005, saying the treatments were not enough to relieve her anxiety and depression.

“I would not want to continue existing like this,” Kosilek testified in June 2006.

The trial lasted on and off from May 2006 until March 2007, with expert testimony from 10 doctors, psychiatrists and psychotherapists. An Associated Press review last year found that the corrections department and its outside health care provider had spent more than $52,000 on experts to testify about the surgery, which would cost about $20,000.

I fail to see how denying someone sex change treatment is “cruel and unusual punishment,” but leave it to the federal court system to find a way to justify such a thing as an “entitlement.”

If you ask me, the state paying $52,000 (and likely more) to fight Kosilek’s lawsuit is well worth it even though it’s more than double what the surgery would cost.  Letting Kosilek establish this as an entitlement would open the door for other inmates to demand such treatments at a terrible, terrible cost to the taxpayers.

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Can I laugh as I play the worlds smallest fiddle for this nut?

Scrapiron on February 26, 2008 at 05:30 pm

laser hair removal

LASER HAIR REMOVAL?????… Well, hells bells ...where do I sign up for this state sponsored Cirque De Spa-o-rama?

“I would not want to continue existing like this,” Kosilek testified

Now that is doable. What is Massachusetts human euthanatizing protocol?
Bwahahahaha....


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Anna on February 26, 2008 at 05:46 pm

The state of Massachusetts is being bamboozled. There is no way the public should have to pay for this “sex change.”
This is health care carried to the extreme. Maybe this guy needs a shank in the prison yard.

watashiwa on February 26, 2008 at 06:00 pm

There are fewer and fewer states and big cities that do not pay for such treatments. Transsexuality is viewed as a genuine health care issue, thus under that umbrella to deny full treatment is to deny life saving health care for a minority.

Do you see what a tangled web we weave when once we practice to deceive? We say this little thing to show compassion for the homosexual community is no big deal, the next one appears the same way, when we look back we sudenly realize that in a few short years we have easily swallowed a really large, really socially destructive camel one damn gnat sized bite at a time. Once you say in the name of toleration this small thing is okay, the next small thing is easier until your toleration has destroyed you.


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Neiman on February 26, 2008 at 06:30 pm

I spoke to the good doctor and he is willing to do it for free.  If anyone knows how to get a hold of Michelle have himher e-mail the doctor at .

He will have to bring his own hormones.  Do you know how to make a hormone?  Don’t pay her.


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Joseph on February 26, 2008 at 06:41 pm
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To be serious for a moment, as an MD with a special interest in all aspects of sexual medicine, I would like to comment and stimulate intelligent commentary.  The prisoner, just as all human beings, have a certain right to sexual equality and pleasure.  However, by committing a crime requiring incarceration, this may impede his rights to certain liberties.  Gender Dysphoria, and the desire to alter one’s sexual roles, is a real entity, but the pursuit of sex reassignment surgery will likely place this individual at risk for harrassment in the prison environment.  In order to be considered for sex reassignment surgery the patient must meet the widely accepted Harry Benjamin criteria.  This involves living as a person of the opposite sex for at least one year, psychological evaluation, sex hormones, hair removal, confirmation by an other qualitied therapist, and the approval of a surgeon to perfrom the surgery.  This process is usually not covered by private insurance, and must be paid for by the individual.  From a moral philosophical standpoint, I suggest society does not owe this, or any other individual, the financial benefit of undergoing a very expensive therapy that is cosmetic in nature.  I am not diminishing the issue of Gender Dysphoria, but even law-abiding individuals who cannot afford this process may not have it done.  They live largely by living their lives to varying degrees in roles of the opposite sex, and may continue therapy.  In short, if this prisoner can meet the Harry Benjamin criteria from prison, be realistic about his expectations about a life in prison as a transgendered female, and can afford to pay for it himself, then he should be permitted to move forward with the sex reassignment process.  Now, what are the obligations of the correctional facility to provide for special protection against harrassment or harm?

sex med md on February 27, 2008 at 03:40 pm

Laser hair removal.....don’t they have some new ones that put out megawatts.....that would remove that unsightly hair permanently....

Bike Bubba on February 27, 2008 at 03:40 pm

Here’s a link to the crime he committed. 

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hRMGbg8tMy6XTcT296l1UGf8wHcQD8V286U00

If the reports are faithful, he deserves his 1st degree murder conviction, and yes, doc, that means that he doesn’t get to express himself sexually.

Bike Bubba on February 27, 2008 at 03:59 pm

The prisoner, just as all human beings, have a certain right to sexual equality and pleasure.

Sorry Doc… I disagree. The prisoner signed on the dotted line giving up ALL is rights and special PROVISIONS when he wrapped his hands around the neck of his wife and strangled her to death.
As for some hair removal… yes, by all means, lets provide him a lil’ electrolysis…
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Anna on February 27, 2008 at 04:10 pm
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Where in the United States Constitution does it give the right to “sexual equality and pleasure?” People throw around the idea of “rights” a lot, and don’t give it much thought. In the Preamble, it states that the government will: “form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and posterity...” Nowhere does it state the government will pay for you to have whatever lamebrain surgery or “necessity” you feel you are entitled to.

Shauna on February 28, 2008 at 05:08 pm
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