This is nuts.
Convicted wife-killer Michelle Kosilek will have to wait a bit longer to learn if his taxpayer-funded sex-change surgery can commence.
The controversial procedure has been postponed, a federal judge ruled today, until the state’s appeal of the operation is decided. The Patrick administration appealed the surgery to the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
U.S. District Court Judge Mark Wolf told Department of Correction lawyers today he is putting the brakes on the entire matter because once the surgery is over, there’s no going back if the appeals court rules in favor of the state.
Kosilek, formerly known as Robert Kosilek, is living as a woman at the all-male MCI-Norfolk state prison.
A Dec. 19 hearing was also set today in federal court in Boston to hear demands from Kosilek’s lawyers for $800,000-plus in legal fees.
Kosilek legally changed his name to Michelle two decades ago. He is serving life without the possibility of parole for the 1990 strangulation of his 36-year-old wife, Cheryl Kosilek. Hormone treatments have enabled him to develop breasts. He briefly received electrolysis treatments in 2008.
Wolf remarked in his September decision that Kosilek is “a man who truly believes that he is a female cruelly trapped in a male body.” He found the Department of Correction violated Kosilek’s Eighth Amendment right to be protected from cruel and unusual punishment.
Oh noooooo! A killer is unhappy in jail? What next? Will they take away cable?
I can’t decide who’s crazier, the wife killing nutjob who thinks chopping off his privates makes him a woman or the culture that’s considering paying for it, lest he be unhappy.
November 21, 2012 at 12:48 am
Get plastic surgery and you are a different person. Get a sex change and you are a different person, a new innocent, not guilty of homicide. Who was it who said: "Every person ought to have the right to kill one person once a year"? Now I can be Marty De Voe after I dispatch that annoying ignoramus, whom God sent to vex me. Michelle Kosilek…hmmm
November 21, 2012 at 12:59 pm
Doctors need to start recognizing mental disorders as mental disorders again.
November 21, 2012 at 3:01 pm
The next thing that will happen is he will claim to be an innocent person trapped in a killer's body and he will demand to be set free on that basis.
November 21, 2012 at 5:28 pm
You're soooo lacking in compassion!!!
November 21, 2012 at 10:47 pm
This is…"nuts"?
Best poor choice of words ever.
November 22, 2012 at 3:04 pm
I could claim to be Napoleon Bonaparte, demand to be referred to as the Emperor of France, but then they would put me in a psych ward. I could claim to be a woman trapped in a man's body, and I would receive the sympathy of psychiatric "professionals" and countless liberals the world over. Something seems wrong here…
Je suis Napoleon!
November 25, 2012 at 12:29 pm
You can't fool with human nature!!!!! As for his rights, HA! He should have thought about them before he murdered his wife.