Tax Funded Prison Gender Changes

Would You Like Your Taxes to Support Sex Changes in Prison?

Read the quoted article at the bottom about prison inmates being able to have gender change operations and homone thereapy drugs to support such operations at tax-payer expense based upon their own identity disorders.

We must not forget, prison is a place for the containment of individuals who have proven themselves to be a detriment to society and therefore are obliged to sacrifice certain otherwise commonplace freedoms for the benefit of and retribution towards the communities they have afflicted. Ift his not a place where such individuals can go and to freely obtain frivolous services and so-called benefits (which would be denied to any person of respectable charater by their own insurace programs) at the expense of the tax-payers and communites they have harmed based upon a deficient mental, spiritual and social standing. The Crime and error here is with the fool at the top, the one who has approved such programs and practices in the first place. These people too, have proven that they do not serve their communites and should be punished for their abuses and forced to pay some sort of retrubution, or in the very least, removed from office.

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New law won’t stop inmates’ sex changes — yet
Aug. 24 hearing to decide whether hormone treatments can continue

AP Associated Press
Updated: 5:38 a.m. ET Feb. 2, 2006

MILWAUKEE - A new Wisconsin law barring the use of state tax money for prisoner sex changes won’t stop four inmates from getting hormone treatments until at least August.
The law took effect last week, but two groups have filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of the inmates, challenging the statute as unconstitutional.
Judge Charles Clevert Jr. issued a preliminary injunction that prevents the state from stopping the hormone treatments until he holds a hearing on the matter. A hearing is scheduled for Aug. 24.

The law bars the state Department of Correction from using tax dollars for hormone therapy or gender reassignment surgery to treat prisoners for gender identity disorder, in which a person believes he or she belongs to the opposite sex.
The four plaintiffs are the only Wisconsin prisoners getting hormone therapy, which costs from $675 to $1,600 a year.
The inmates claim that stopping the treatments would be cruel and unusual punishment and would violate their right to equal protection.
The legal fight about the treatment started in 2003, when inmate Scott Konitzer filed a lawsuit against the Department of Corrections seeking gender reassignment surgery.
Now known as Donna Dawn Konitzer, she has been getting hormone therapy as treatment for gender identity disorder since 1999.
State Rep. Mark Gundrum, a Republican and one of the law’s authors, predicted the law would withstand the challenge.
“It’s ridiculous to ask the taxpayers to pay for this,” he said.
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