U.S. court upholds prisoner's right to taxpayer-funded sex change

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U.S. court upholds prisoner's right to taxpayer-funded sex change

By Richard Valdmanis BOSTON (Reuters) - A Massachusetts prisoner suffering from gender identity disorder should be provided a sex-change operation paid for by the state's prison system, a federal appeals court said on Friday in a first-of-its-kind ruling. A panel of three judges of the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston said it agreed with a lower court ruling in 2012 that the Massachusetts Department of Corrections was obligated to provide the surgery as treatment for the inmate, who is serving a life sentence for murder. "Having carefully considered the relevant law and the extensive factual record, we affirm the judgment of the district court," Judge Rogeriee Thompson wrote for the court. The inmate, who legally changed his name to Michelle Kosilek from Robert Kosilek, sued the Department of Corrections more than a decade ago trying to force it to pay for gender reassignment surgery.

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