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Old 09-06-2012, 01:00 PM   #1
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“It is unusual to treat a prisoner suffering severely from a gender identity disorder differently than the numerous inmates suffering from more familiar forms of mental illness,” wrote Judge Wolf, an appointee of President Ronald Reagan. “It is not permissible for prison officials to do so just because the fact that a gender identity disorder is a major mental illness not understood by much of the public and the required treatment for it is unpopular.”

Judge Wolf acknowledged that Mr. Kosilek, a convicted murderer, may receive better care for his disorder than many law-abiding Americans.

“It may seem strange that in the United States citizens do not generally have a constitutional right to adequate medical care, but the Eighth Amendment promises prisoners such care,” he wrote, pointing to a 2011 Supreme Court decision that said providing anything less was “incompatible with the concept of human dignity.”

Judge Wolf said correction officials, not himself, should decide where the surgery should take place, who should perform it and where Kosilek should be incarcerated after the surgery.
The whole thing is ludicrous. So now we're supposed to once again consider gender identity issues as major mental disorders? What happened to how fluid gender is and how natural it is when the lines are blurred?

I'm confused.

Anyway, Imma go murder my husband so I can go to prison. I'd really like to look like Catherine Zeta Jones and I need some surgery to get there.

Oh, I don't have a husband. Shoot.

*backs away slowly from the coming flames*
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Old 09-06-2012, 01:10 PM   #2
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Oh, I don't have a husband. Shoot.
Just order one! Satisfaction not guaranteed...
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Old 09-06-2012, 01:40 PM   #3
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Just order one! Satisfaction not guaranteed...
Oh my. I couldn't pick on so I did the compatibility test. I was hooked up with Arnaud, who only smells (how you say) a little.
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Old 09-06-2012, 01:18 PM   #4
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"The whole thing is ludicrous."

*Agreed.










*But: my own views ('he' is not interchangeable with 'she') are already posted in this thread over and over, so I have no need to beat that drum again.
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Old 09-07-2012, 12:02 PM   #5
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*Agreed.










*But: my own views ('he' is not interchangeable with 'she') are already posted in this thread over and over, so I have no need to beat that drum again.
If it was really "needless", why bother bringing it up again?
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