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sex reassignment surgery to inmates. Wolf ordered the DOC to provide Kosilek with the surgery. In October 2012, Judge Wolf ordered the DOC to hire an independent expert to determine whether electrolysis was a necessary part of Kosilek's treatment for gender dysphoria. Judge Wolf announced in December that, pending the outcome of the case on appeal, he was prepared to require the state to reimburse Koselek's attorneys for their work on the case, estimated at more than $ 700,000. Kosilek's attorneys offered to forgo that payment if the state would cover the cost of Kosilek's surgery and forgo its appeal.
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exhibit mannerisms and behavior considered to be female or that he may be referred to by female pronouns." At trial, Kosilek's attorney did not dispute that Kosilek strangled McCaul, but said Kosilek had no memory of the events because of a four-day blackout that began shortly before the killing. She said: "My client now believes, though has no memory of this, that must have been the one to use that wire in self defense." The prosecution described how Kosilek hid McCaul's body, tried to disguise McCaul's death as "a sex crime", and fled to New York.
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by denying sex reassignment surgery, noting that former Corrections Commissioner Kathleen Dennehy had engaged in "pretense, pretext, and prevarication" to deny the treatment. He wrote that Dennehy had "testified untruthfully on many matters" while supporting legislation to prevent him from providing
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Kosilek's step-son, Timothy, who was 15 years old at the time of the murder, testified that that evening, Kosilek had cooked steak for their dinner, and that they had talked about everyday things. Timothy also stated that Kosilek shaved off her beard on the day of the killing, the first time she had
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Kosilek was twice taken in for questioning, once that day, and once on Monday, May 21. During this second visit, the police informed Kosilek that she was a suspect in the murder, and that they, the police, had spoken with Kosilek's son. Kosilek informed the police that she was going to get a lawyer,
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That evening, Kosilek called the North Attleborough police department, stated that wife Cheryl had not come home that evening, and asked whether there had been any report of a car accident in which she might have been involved. The police told Kosilek that they had found Cheryl's car, and they asked
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said that denying the medical care in question did not violate Kosilek's Eighth Amendment rights because it did not "fall below society's minimum standards of decency" and "illustrate{d} neither an intent to harm nor the obstinate and unwarranted application of clearly imprudent care". However, the
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The trial began on January 14, 1993, with jury selection at which no potential juror expressed any difficulty with the judge's statement that "the defendant is physically a male but may emotionally and psychologically be a female, and will be wearing what may be described as female clothing and may
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Kosilek was indicted for murder on May 30, 1990. After unsuccessfully contesting her extradition from New York where she had been apprehended, she pleaded not guilty on October 3 and was ordered held without bail. In November 1992, while awaiting trial, she ran a write-in campaign for the office of
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noted that cost was not the issue, since the cost of the surgery would be offset by the lesser expense of housing Kosilek in a women's prison and avoid the costs associated with Kosilek's attacks on his own body. It nevertheless thought that sex reassignment surgery was "medical attention that is
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facility for addiction treatment in 1983, where Kosilek met Cheryl McCaul, who was working there as a volunteer counselor. McCaul was a divorcee with two children and believed that if she were to marry Kosilek, that Kosilek would identify as a man; Kosilek recalled McCaul saying that all Kosilek
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after unsuccessfully suing the current sheriff for violations of her civil rights by "the denial of medically prescribed treatment for ... gender dysphoria." Also while awaiting trial, she took female hormones in the form of birth control pills, twice attempted suicide, and once attempted
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both objected to the use of "taxpayer dollars" for Kosilek's surgery. Relatives of Cheryl McCaul objected to the court-ordered surgery and one cousin suggested it would lead someone unable to afford such surgery to commit murder in order to receive it at government expense.
177:. Their mother returned to take them back in 1949, from which point on, starting at age ten, Kosilek was repeatedly raped by her maternal grandfather and began abusing alcohol. On one occasion, Kosilek showed her breasts, which were swollen due to 197:. As a young adult, she worked several jobs, including as a dishwasher, a truck driver, a garbage collector, a construction worker, a furniture restorer, a warehouse manager, a packer at a condiment factory and a school bus driver. as well as a 316:, after the mall had closed for the night. McCaul's body was nude, and she had died by strangulation. Kosilek had strangled her with a rope and with a piece of piano wire, pulling so tightly that McCaul was nearly decapitated. 244:. Kosilek later said that, while she was on hormone therapy, she "felt normal" for the first time in her life. Kosilek also took hormones for several months in 1971 and 1972, but abruptly stopped each time, first after she was 373:
During the court proceedings, a cab driver testified that he had picked up Kosilek from that same mall, on that same afternoon, and had driven her to a store located about half a mile from her house in Mansfield.
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full First Circuit Court ruled against Kosilek 3–2 in December 2014. Later, in 2015, the Supreme Court chose not to hear the appeal, and by doing so rejected Kosilek's request for sex reassignment surgery.
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From 1967 to 1968, starting when Kosilek was about 18 years old, a doctor allegedly exploited Kosilek's difficulty in obtaining medical treatment for her gender dysphoria by providing
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himself as a woman, and that should be honored by the prison system" but he thought that Kosilek's advocates were wrong to describe his case "as a general trans issue". U.S. Senator
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by fellow inmates while serving time for drug possession and robbery, and the second time when she was assaulted at a gay bar by two patrons, who disagreed with her plans to
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said that Wolf's decision made a persuasive case that the surgery was "medically necessary, not an elective procedure", however "distasteful". The paper had also stopped
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of a hospital. Kosilek gave a series of recorded interviews to a reporter in October 1992. Kosilek stated that she "probably, because of the trauma of it ... went into a
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had opposed Kosilek's surgery because "rivate insurers rarely pay for sex-change operations" and "hormone treatment and expert therapy" are "sufficient". In 2012, the
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do not cover it. It offered the "generally recognized standard of insurance coverage" as the standard to be used in providing medical services to the incarcerated.
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For the murder of McCaul, Kosilek was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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On May 20, 1990, Cheryl McCaul's body was discovered in the back seat of her car. Her car was found in the parking lot of the
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Kosilek murdered McCaul in May, 1990. On the day of the murder, McCaul had returned home to the couple's condominium in
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In 2000, Kosilek sued the Massachusetts Department of Corrections (MDOC), claiming "violation of rights" under the
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James Phillips, "Gender Identity Disorder in Prison: Depending on a Diagnosis That Is Soon to Disappear?",
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at that moment." while committing the murder, adding: "Apparently, I did take her life. It was probably in
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ruled on August 8, 1996, that the trial judge's errors were insufficient to overturn the conviction.
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Kosilek to come to the police station. Kosilek agreed, requesting that an officer pick her up.
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above and beyond the community standard of care", noting that private insurance companies and
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Later that evening, on May 22, 1990, shortly after midnight, Kosilek crashed her car in
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In January 2012, Kosilek self-published an autobiography while serving time in prison,
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Kosilek by her birth name "Robert" and adopted feminine pronouns. An editorial in the
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Nathaniel Penn, "Should This Inmate Get a State-Financed Sex Change Operation?",
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to appeal Wolf's decision. He said "I think it should be clear he has a right to
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In 2009, Kosilek lost her eighth lawsuit, attempting to force the DOC to provide
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Finucane, Martin; Ellement, John R.; Valencia, Milton J. (January 17, 2014).
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Jennifer Levi "Transgender Exceptionalism Should Not Cloud Legal Analysis,"
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In May 2006, Kosilek sued the DOC, arguing that its refusal to provide
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mother, while their father was serving a lengthy prison sentence for
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The DOC appealed Wolf's decision about sex reassignment surgery,
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Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by Massachusetts
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Kosilek briefly received electrolysis treatments in 2008.
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Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Framingham
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Chicago, Illinois
gender dysphoria
Conviction(s)
Life imprisonment without parole
Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk
murderer
Massachusetts Department of Correction
gender dysphoria
vaginoplasty
Chicago
Illinois
alcoholic
mail fraud
Catholic Church
St. Hedwig’s Parish
cross-dressing
gynecomastia
heroin
burglary
shoplifting
child prostitution
private
U.S. Army
AWOL
dysphoria since she was three
transition
Christine Jorgensen
gender-affirming surgery
hormone therapy
in exchange for sex

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