Mass. inmate on decade-long quest for sex change

[Shana A]

Mass. inmate on decade-long quest for sex change
By Associated Press
Sunday, June 12, 2011 - Updated 15 hours ago

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1344930

BOSTON - Every day, when Michelle Kosilek goes out in the yard at the all-male Norfolk state prison, she hears the nasty remarks yelled by fellow inmates: "Freak!" "->-bleeped-<-got!" "Act like a man!"

She's gotten used to the insults, but says she'll never be able to accept life as a man.

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Her quest to force prison officials to provide a sex-change operation has stretched more than a decade. If she wins her federal lawsuit, Kosilek would become the first inmate in the country to receive a taxpayer-funded sex-change operation. But the surgery is far from a sure thing.