re: #97 Gus

That’s a savings of $219,000 or 10 times the cost of surgery this is assuming the inmate will not be held in isolation at the women’s prison.

Can that be assumed, though? I’m not sure how a group of female inmates are going to react to someone they may well not consider to be female in gen pop. She’ll be at less risk of sexual assault, but possibly just as much for getting stomped in the yard. Not to mention my previous concerns about letting someone with a record of strangling a woman, and a man’s frame, cell with ciswomen.

The other thing that keeps occuring to me is that the VA wouldn’t pay for this for a veteran on full disability. This does seem like a hell of a person to decide that reassignment surgery is a medical necessity for.

Not agin’ it, especially if legally it’s what they’ve got to do…but I still can’t say I’m happy for her.