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Five Things You Need to Know in Mansfield for Oct. 5: Kosilek, School and Town Budgets and Unemployment

Mansfield unemployment down.

1. Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 79. Calm wind becoming west around 6 mph in the afternoon.  Friday Night Patchy fog after 5 a.m. Otherwise, mostly clear, with a low around 57. Southwest wind 3 to 5 mph. 2. Michelle Kosilek, whose court case to receive a sex-change operation is currently under appeal, has acrewed over $800,000 in legal fees, for which she is seeking the state to pay. Click here to read more. 3. The school district has begun working on the budget for next year. The school committee stated that they would be focusing on high needs students to secure federal funding per state requirements. 4. Mansfield finance committee members said that the town has a long …

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What Do You Think of Taxpayer-Funded Sex Changes for Inmates?

A federal judge's ruling Tuesday on a Massachusetts case is believed to be the first of its kind.

A convicted murderer from Mansfield will receive a state-funded sex-reassignment surgery because a federal judge has ruled it is the only way to treat her "serious medical need." Massachusetts state prison officials must provide the surgery to former Mansfield resident Michelle Kosilek, who was convicted as Robert Kosilek for killing his wife in 1990. Kosilek was born a male but has received hormone treatments and lives in an all-male prison. U.S. District Judge Mark Wolf is believed to be the first federal judge to order prison officials to provide sex-reassignment surgery for a transgender inmate, the Boston Globe reported. Kosilek first sued the Massachusetts Department of Correction 12 years ago. Wolf ruled two years later that Kosilek…

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