I am sometimes frustrated when I write a post that I believe to be an obvious a satirical piece, only to have the combox fill up with people who think I am serious.
I say this by way of introduction because I am quite sure that many people would assume that I am making this story up and I am being mean to cross-dressing murderers. I can assure you of two things. I am NOT making this story up and I AM being mean to cross-dressing murderers because, well, they are cross-dressing murderers.
( MyFoxBoston.com via Weasel Zippers) – A cross-dressing Massachusetts inmate who murdered his wife and has spent the last decade suing the Department of Correction for access to a sex change operation had a taxpayer funded mammogram this week, Fox 25 has learned.
Robert Kosilek – who sued for the right to change his name to Michelle in 1993, the year that he began his expensive court battle to force taxpayers to foot the bill for a sex change operation – has been receiving hormone injections and electrolysis hair removal as an inmate at MCI-Norfolk.Those hormone treatments helped Kosilek develop breasts and the con has been wearing a bra in the all-male Massachusetts prison, DOC officials said.
On April 13, Kosilek, 59, was transported from the prison to the Lemuel Shattuck Hospital in Boston for an appointment in the radiology department. There he was given a routine mammogram before he was returned to the prison at noon, according to transportation documents obtained by Fox 25.
How does a news anchor keep all the he’s and she’s straight?
The goods news is that when Obamacare goes national, it will likely restrict mammograms for all women, including those who aren’t actual women.
However if Mr/Ms Kosilek decides to turn to rape instead of murder, the Viagra is on us.
April 16, 2010 at 5:04 am
That's just "preventative" care, Patrick. If Mr(s). Kosilek came down with breast cancer somewhere down the road (as if synthetic hormones ever cause cancer, NAAAA!) taxpayers would end up fitting the bill as well.
April 16, 2010 at 5:24 am
I don't get it. Men get breast cancer, too. I'm not saying that I support his tax payer funded sex change, because I don't at all. It's against God, because He doesn't make mistakes. However, given that if you put someone in prison, then tax payers automatically have to foot the bill for that person's health care; and given that men are also prone to breast cancer, breast cancer screenings should be part of basic health care for men as well as women, outside of prison as well as within. Therefore, I don't see the problem with allowing those in prison to get breast cancer screening.
April 16, 2010 at 2:26 pm
Men rarely get breast cancer. So rarely, that it does not require a routine screen. That's ridiculous. We have a crisis with female breast cancer and have problems getting them routinely screened. Let's not naively guise this as being some preventative health measure for a man's breast cancer screen.
What's interesting is now they have to deal with this half man half woman in an all male prison. I wonder if the government has any policies in place for that. What is scary is the legislation they are currently sneaking in to have them be protected from losing their jobs as school teachers. http://www.onenewsnow.com/Perspectives/Default.aspx?id=972624
April 16, 2010 at 4:34 pm
Why, O why do we give people medicines that make them sick? If a person was bulimic would the state encourage that illness also? How is this any different?
I hope they pinched him really hard.
April 16, 2010 at 5:36 pm
Thank you for my laugh of the day Patrick (however true and unbelievably crazy it is!) — God bless.
–Laura
April 16, 2010 at 9:11 pm
So where does this person take a shower? On second thought, maybe we really don't want to know.
April 17, 2010 at 3:42 am
I'm waiting for the Viagra to "be on us," since the contraception is already free.
April 17, 2010 at 4:29 am
So…taxpayers get to pay for his mammogram, that he needs because taxpayers have already been paying for the hormone injections that caused him to grow breasts? What a criminal waste of money.
April 18, 2010 at 8:37 pm
Tori, I totally agree. WHY are we paying for hormones for this man (and electrolysis to boot!) in the first place?! I bet the women in the female prison don't even get electrolysis…
April 19, 2010 at 1:43 pm
$2.17 for a bra! What a deal!…this is sick.