… I don’t feel any particular ethical or moral obligation to pay for a sex change operation for a prison inmate so that he can be housed in a women’s prison.
“For all intents and purposes, I am a woman in a man’s prison,” Grey said during a recent interview at the Limon Correctional Facility. “That’s like putting a cat in a dog kennel.”
The transgendered inmate said he belongs in a women’s prison, but, by state policy, he can’t because he has male genitalia.
Grey believes Colorado has a constitutional obligation to perform a sex-change operation on him so he can go to a women’s prison. He’s filed a lawsuit against the state, demanding he be given a psychologist who is a gender specialist.
Grey was receiving hormonal therapy and psych counseling; Colorado provides such medication for convicts who were previously taking it.
That the inmate in question is serving 16-to-Life for molesting an eight-year-old girl for five years may play into my lack of compassion. Or it may just make it easier.