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Originally Posted by Kumabjorn
They don't do that in the US? Is it an insurance problem?
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No, we do it here. Even for our prison inmates. Although not as part of the sentence...
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(CNN) -- A federal court judge on Tuesday ordered Massachusetts officials to provide sex-reassignment surgery for a transsexual prison inmate, after determining that it was the only adequate treatment for the inmate's mental illness.
The state's Department of Correction said Michelle Kosilek, previously known as Robert, who is serving a life sentence without parole for murdering his wife in 1990, has a gender identity disorder.
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