Ministry off the hook in rapist's sex-change
Court rejects decision ordering attorney general to pick up cost of rapist's psychiatric assessment
Tracey Tyler Legal Affairs Reporter
Published On Fri Jan 22 2010
http://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/article/754295--ministry-off-the-hook-in-rapist-s-sex-change?bn=1 (http://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/article/754295--ministry-off-the-hook-in-rapist-s-sex-change?bn=1)
Seven lawyers, four judges and two testicles. They've been at the centre of an important legal case and dispute over an Ontario psychiatric patient's request for a sex change.
Now, Ontario's highest court has ruled on who should pay for a pre-surgical psychiatric assessment of Vance Egglestone, a multiple rapist now known as Shauna Taylor.
Taylor, 53, who began attacking women in bars in the 1970s and has spent nearly 35 years locked up in psychiatric hospitals, has been trying to become a woman. The next step is an operation to remove both testicles, a procedure known as a double orchidectomy.