Appeals court: Sex reassignment surgery must be provided

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I support the state giving free gender reassignment surgery to convicts only after the state gives all the surgery that is needed to the people who aren't in prison. That includes surgery to fix things that cause uninsured people severe depression. Once they start doing that, then it's fine with me if they go into prisons and start doing it there. Wouldn't you get pissed if since you cant get the surgery you really feel that you need out here in the free world that the state was giving it to some killer?

The decision seems legit, but me and many other trans people have been thinking, If a convicted murderer can get SRS, then why can't I?

Then why do you want them to get it???

SECTION 1. DEFINITION OF TERMS...
Medically Necessary - those services (1) which are reasonably calculated to prevent, diagnose, prevent the worsening of, alleviate, correct, or cure conditions in the Enrollee that endanger life, cause suffering or pain, cause physical deformity or malfunction, threaten to cause or to aggravate a disability, or result in illness or infirmity; and (2) for which there is no comparable medical service or site of service available or suitable for the Enrollee requesting the service that is more conservative or less costly; and (3) are of a quality that meets generally accepted standards of health care…" Massachusetts Contract, pages 6-13.