Idaho must pay for inmate's gender reassignment surgery

"Since President Trump’s inauguration, the administration has vowed to expand national and regional missile defense systems of every kind and Congress has supported these efforts. In fiscal year 2018, Congress approved $11.5 billion for the Missile Defense Agency, an increase of $3.6 billion, or 46 percent, from the Trump administration’s May 2017 initial budget request.

The appropriation is the largest Congress has ever provided for the agency after adjusting for inflation. The administration, with Congress’ support, is planning to expand the number of ground-based interceptors from 44 to 64 and purchasing additional regional missile defense interceptors.

Congress approved another big increase for fiscal year 2019, approving $10.3 billion for the agency, an increase of $1.4 billion above the budget request of $9.9 billion."

www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/usmissiledefense#exec

"As part of this plan, the Pentagon plans to build between 1,000-1,100 new air-launched cruise missiles to replace the current model, which will reach the end of its operational life around 2030. An air-launched cruise missile is a guided missile fired from an airplane and can travel long distances. The new cruise missile, known as the Long-Range Standoff (LRSO), is expected to cost between $20 and $30 billion dollars.

Many nuclear policy experts question the necessity of building a new nuclear cruise missile for the bomber leg of the triad. Most notably, former Secretary of Defense William Perry (who helped develop the current air-launched cruise missile during his time at the Pentagon) and former Assistant Secretary of Defense Andrew Weber penned an op-ed urging the president to cancel the program, deeming the weapon both unnecessary and inherently destabilizing."

armscontrolcenter.org/is-a-new-nuclear-cruise-missile-necessary/


No one bitches or starts a thread over the BILLIONS spent on unnecessary missiles.

But a surgery deemed necessary by those w/expertise in the area (genitoplasty ~$18K) is cause for fiscal awareness.

People are funny.

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI/KIDK) - Brady Summers dated Mason Edmo, now Adree Edmo, for two years. It was his first relationship since coming out. It did not end well.

"He would beat me on a constant basis," Summers said. "I had to keep my head low. I had to be careful what I said, careful what I did. And the final straw of me escaping that was him beating me with a frying pan."

Edmo went to jail, but tried to reconcile with Summers when he got out. It also did not end well. Not long after that, Edmo was in prison for sexual abuse of a child under the age of 16. It was then that Edmo began to get treatment for gender dysphoria, or conflict over feeling like he, Mason, should be a female. Edmo was also diagnosed with "gender identity disorder" and now identifies as a female and goes by the name Adree. She says that she was living as a female before she went to prison. Summers says Edmo never showed signs of either of these conditions, but was always a masculine, gay man.

"Never once indicated anything of gender dysphoria or sexual indifference," he said. "He was a predator. He, on several occasions, had his way with me. It was brutal."


After reading his ( I use “his” due to the article) crimes as a gay male.
Now he identifies as a Woman and wishes to live as one.
Right or wrong my personal opinion is the surgery would be good for society as without a male appendage, rape in that manner would be prevented.
I would go farther and insist on a requirement to stay on hormones to reduce the strength they are capable of with male hormone circulating thru their body.
Other than those points, I can see money being spent in worse manners and it is not violating this persons rights involuntary by insisting on chemical castration which also requires a constant dose of medication.

I linked that article below, you should read the other one I linked too.  Edmo committed the crime she is in jail for without the male appendage.  

In that manner it could be avoided, but you don't need a penis to rape someone. Rape is a sexual penetration again someones will, be it sexual intercourse or other forms of penetration.So unless they are going to remove all form of sexual desire from him body there is nothing stopping him, even after a gender reassignment operation, to molest minors or anyone else come to that.

Exactly.

I don't think that smokers should get treatment for lung cancer - it was their choice, right? So any treatment/surgery following it is "elective" and the taxpayers shouldn't pay for it.

I don't think that drug addicts should get treatment for their addictions - again, it was their choice.

I don't think that obese people should get treatment for their high blood pressure, diabetes, heart bypass, or any of the other things that happen because of their choices.

I don't think that people who crash their cars should get treatment for their injuries - they chose to drive dangerously.

I don't think that people with genetic birth defects should get treatment - after all, their parents were the ones who chose to reproduce with defective genes.

All of those sound horrible - but they all view health issues as "choices" where the person can be punished by withholding treatment. For the record, I think that as a society we SHOULD treat people when they are ill or injured, and we should also help them to make life changes that will help them with their addictions and health issues.

As we learn more about gender identity and sexuality, we learn that it isn't necessarily a choice any more than a heart defect or depression. Would we tell a prisoner that they can't have heart surgery or meds, or get their depression treated? If we just say no to these treatments, does that not make more sentences into death sentences? If a diabetic prisoner is denied insulin, they will die. Do we just say "oh well, shouldn't have done the crime"- or do we treat them because they were sentenced to 4 years, not a life sentence?

Some of our beliefs and prejudices will be looked upon 100 years from now as absolutely barbaric. If the medical personnel has determined that reassignment therapy is the appropriate treatment for this person, that is what should be done.

They don't make these decisions based on what you or I think.  Those w/expertise, training and experience have deemed it to be a reasonable and necessary procedure for this person at this time.  Just like other medical procedures people in jail get and others in the general population may not (which is a whole other degree of problem thanks to our "We're #1" shitty medical system.

I realize that. But removing the testicles, and giving them testosterone suppression therapy, it will seriously change the sex drive. That is why chemical castration is a thing.

It’s not a foolproof step, but I could see it lowering those tendencies.

Even the physical abuse they meted out to the former partner. Testosterone fueled rage would be made less likely. ( and of course I’m not saying that women never become enraged or abuse others. )

I would have to do a significant amount of research on gender dysmorphia and whether not having the surgery would have detrimental mental health effects.

I don’t feel as though I need to research this. He has doctors that say it is medically necessary, and a judge who looked at the evidence and agreed. That’s good enough for me.

And I agree with those who are troubled by the idea of catering to violent prisoners’ preferences, just on principle. But I don’t have all the facts, I’m never going to have all the facts, and I don’t have the medical or legal knowledge needed to make a reasonable decision here.

So I’m going with what the experts have to say.