Should State Pay for Convict's Sex Change?

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Should State Pay for Convict's Sex Change?
Transgender Massachusetts Convict Presses Cash-Strapped Government for Electrolysis
By ANNE-MARIE DORNING
Nov. 27, 2009

http://abcnews.go.com/US/state-pay-prison-inmates-sex-change/story?id=9178368

A Massachusetts inmate recently lost a bid for state-funded electrolysis treatments. But the prisoner, who has changed names from Robert to Michelle Kosilek, is still pursuing his case to have the state of Massachusetts pay for a sex-change operation in order to complete a gender transformation that started almost 20 years ago.

That puts Kosilek squarely in the middle of a debate over just what kind of medical care prisoners are entitled to, especially in an era of strained state budgets.