Transgender Inmates in American Prisons: Is the Michelle Kosilek Case a Precedent for Gender Reassignment Surgery?
February 5, 2013 4:41 PM
Slowly, but surely, the government has been implementing laws and lifting bans so the LGBT community are seen as equals in society, but what happens when a transgender inmate wants a gender-reassignment surgery while behind bars?
The Transgender Prisoner and the Eighth Amendment: Should the State Fund an Inmate’s Gender Reassignment Surgery?
January 6, 2013 3:51 PM
A domestic crime that got little notice at the time has led to a landmark case involving the constitutional rights of transgendered convicts. In 1990, Robert Kosilek killed his wife, but in 2012 prisoner Michelle Kosilek’s fight for gender-reassignment surgery made headlines.
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