Robert Kosilek killed his wife by decapitating her with a wire in 1990 after she poured boiling tea on him. Rightfully, he was convicted of murder and now resides in a Massachusetts State prison.
However, Robert (who now wants to be called “Michelle”):
sued the Massachusetts Department of Correction (DOC), saying that the agency must pay for sexual-reasignment [sic] surgery—the removal of the penis and the construction of female genitals—because she suffers from gender identity disorder. Denying medical treatment, Cohen [Kosilek’s attorney] tells me, violates the Eighth Amendment of the US Constitution, which bars cruel and unusual punishment.
So this man permanently denied the rights of a woman, his wife, with cruel and unusual punishment, and now he wants to become a woman and alleges that if the state won’t pay for it that it’s cruel and unusual punishment and denying him of his rights?
The only thing keeping Kosilek alive enough to issue this ridiculous request is that the death penalty is illegal in Massachusetts. So now not only can the state not kill the bastard, it will be forced to pay for his sex change surgery thanks to US District Court Chief Judge Mark Wolf.
This isn’t the first time Kosilek has made the news. In 2002, he sued from prison and won to get hormone treatment. “The case reverberated across the country. Inmates from Massachusetts to California started requesting hormone therapy, and a lot of them got it.”
Many people in the US who haven’t committed crimes have little access to basic services, yet we can apparently now pay for murderers to get sex changes and hormone treatments. Ain’t things just grand?
