{"id":25508,"date":"2015-05-04T13:19:57","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T17:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=25508"},"modified":"2015-05-04T13:19:57","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T17:19:57","slug":"the-supreme-court-gets-one-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=25508","title":{"rendered":"The Supreme Court Gets One Right"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Attleboro<\/a> Massachusetts<\/a> Sun Chronicle<\/a> is reporting today that the Supreme Court<\/a> has rejected an appeal from Robert Kosilek<\/a> to have the taxpayers pay for his sex-change operation<\/a>. Robert (now being called Michelle) is serving a life sentence for killing spouse Cheryl Kosilek at their Mansfield condo in 1990.<\/span> He then placed her body in her car and drove her to Emerald Square Mall in North Attleboro<\/a>, and took a taxi home. He then reported her missing.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

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The inmate has waged a lengthy fight for the surgery<\/a> she says is necessary to relieve the mental anguish caused by gender-identity disorder<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Last year, a divided federal appeals court in Boston<\/a> overturned a first-in-the-nation court order for the state to provide the sex-reassignment surgery. Courts around the country have found that prisons must evaluate transgender inmates to determine their health care needs, but most have ordered hormone treatments and psychotherapy, not surgery. <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

It does not concern me whether or not Robert has the operation he desires. What does concern me is that a murderer expects the taxpayers to fund optional surgery. It is obvious that Robert has some serious issues, whatever they may be, but I do not think it is up to the taxpayers to resolve them with extreme elective surgery. I am also not convinced that anything will resolve these issues. It is one thing to want a sex-change operation, it is quite another thing to murder your wife and try to get away with it. This is one case in which I wish Massachusetts had the death penalty. Mr. Kosilek needs to be shown the same amount of mercy that he showed his wife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Attleboro Massachusetts Sun Chronicle is reporting today that the Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Robert Kosilek to have the taxpayers pay for his sex-change operation. Robert (now being called Michelle) is serving a life sentence for killing … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8961,142,3882,3884,274,3619],"class_list":["post-25508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gender-identity-disorder","tag-massachusetts","tag-robert-kosilek","tag-sex-reassignment-surgery","tag-supreme-court","tag-united-states-district-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25509,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25508\/revisions\/25509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}