Rep. Rogers Amends Budget to Block Prisoner Sex Change Payments
State Rep. John Rogers said he is disappointed in a recent ruling in the U.S District Court where a judge ruled that the state’s taxpayers must pay for an inmate’s sex reassignment surgery.
A former chairman of the House Ways and Means committee, State Representative John H. Rogers (D-Norwood) today filed an amendment to a line-item in the state’s budget that pays out judgments for the state’s losses in court. Rogers said he is disappointed in a recent ruling in the U.S District Court where a judge ruled that the state’s taxpayers must pay for an inmate’s sex reassignment surgery. The Rogers Amendment would block any payments unless the matter is appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. “It is difficult for many to believe at a time when 225,000 of our state’s citizens are out of work and even millions more struggling to get by that they should be forced to pay for a sex change of a convicted murderer, who seemingly has more …
Lynne
5:03 pm on Thursday, November 1, 2012
It doesn't matter whether it is anatomical or psychiatric. It is not life threatening. He does not have cancer and needs treatment, or leukemia or a brain tumor. What would he be doing if he weren't in prison? Why didn't he have this operation if it is so necessary before he murdered someone? I can try to understand the conflicts he must feel; but as I said before, he murdered someone, there is … more ›