Court Orders Taxpayer Funded Transgender Transition Surgery for Inmate
A bizarre interpretation of the Constitution’s “cruel and unusual punishments” ban.
October 3, 2024 by Joseph Klein Leave a Comment
A federal judge has invoked the Constitution’s Eighth Amendment prohibiting “cruel and unusual punishments” in ruling that the Indiana Department of Corrections (IDOC) must pay for a convicted baby murderer, a biological male, to have gender transition surgeries. If there is anyone who will be suffering “cruel and unusual punishments” in this case, it will be the taxpayers of Indiana who must bear the costs of these surgeries unless the decision is overturned on appeal.
Unfortunately, the Indiana federal court ruling is part of a disturbing trend by some courts to turn the Eighth Amendment on its head to accommodate demands by self-identified transgender inmates – even the most violent ones. In this case, a biological male, Jonathan Richardson, who murdered his defenseless baby stepdaughter while living with his female spouse is claiming to be a female himself and entitled to have gender transition surgeries at taxpayers’ expense.
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