After 28 years in prison, Michelle-Lael Norsworthy faces an awful irony. (Photo: Transgender Law Center)
Ah contendah, look how happy she/he is. Doesn't that just give your old hard heart a little tickle? Only about a hundred grand of taxpayer's money to put that smile on her/his face. If you compare the pics, it looks like she/he might have gotten a little plastic surgery on the face too.
A California panel recommended parole for a transgender inmate on Thursday, a decision that could keep her from receiving the prison-funded sex reassignment surgery she says is necessary for her emotional health.
Michelle-Lael Norsworthy is no longer dangerous and should be freed, a pair of parole commissioner decided after a hearing. Norsworthy, 51, has served 28 years in prison for a second-degree murder conviction from Orange County.
The decision sets up a race to see if Norsworthy, who was born a man and has lived as a woman since the 1990s, gets the surgery before she is paroled.
The state Board of Parole Hearings now has 120 days to review the commissioners’ recommendation. If it is upheld, Gov. Jerry Brown will have another 30 days to intervene.
U.S. District Court Judge Jon Tigar of San Francisco ruled last month that Norsworthy’s civil rights are being violated and ordered the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to provide her with the sex reassignment surgery as soon as possible.
The surgery currently is scheduled for July 1, but corrections officials are asking the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to delay the operation while it considers the state’s appeal of Tigar’s order, a process that could take months.
Oh so much more to read!!
https://www.yahoo.com/health/p...ng-119532507217.html
Excerpt:
Norsworthy’s attorneys said the estimate is exaggerated, and that if their client is paroled she would be eligible for Medi-Cal, which covers medically necessary sex reassignment surgeries.
Norsworthy said in court documents that she has felt distress and anxiety since adolescence of as a result of gender dysphoria but only realized she needed sex reassignment surgery while she was in prison. She was diagnosed with gender identity disorder in 1999 and began taking female hormones.
