After losing a legal battle over whether Massachusetts must provide sex-change surgery to a transgender prison inmate, the state should take the opportunity to minimize its monetary exposure.
Earlier this month, federal district Judge Mark Wolf ordered the state to provide the surgery to Michelle Kosilek, an inmate serving a life sentence for murder. However bizarre the case seems on its face, Wolf argued persuasively that it met the relevant legal and medical standards for requiring the operation. And now that Wolf has ruled that Kosilek is entitled to legal fees, the state is on the hook for much more than the cost of the operation.
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Not surprising that the Globe would be in favor of catering to this nutjob. This decision needs to be appealed and hopfully reversed or else it will open the floodgates for every other whack job hoping to get into a womens' prison to try a similar scam. He was convicted of murder. Let him rot in prison as whatever gender he was born with.
Oh, Globe editiors, you miss the point. Appealing the decision would keep the issue in the forefront and keep the populace stirred up and moaning "this wouldn't have happened in the good ol' days, when life was simpler", the kind of "good ol' days" that Mitt Romney is committed to bringing back. Hey, what was so wrong with society in 1955, anyway?