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Convicted Murderer Entitled to Sex Change: 1st Circuit

In a first-of-its-kind ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit last week held that the Department of Corrections must provide a sex change operation for a transsexual murder convict suffering from gender identity disorder. So reports the Boston Globe.

The court held that failure to provide the operation would violate the inmate’s right to adequate prison medical care under the Eighth Amendment. The court-ordered surgery may not take place anytime soon; it has been put on hold pending appeal by Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick’s administration.

Read the full article from the Boston Globe.

 

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