DieHardBrownsFan Posted August 8, 2015 Report Share Posted August 8, 2015 California gov allows parole for transgender inmate for operation Published August 08, 2015 Associated Press Facebook Twitter Email May 21, 2015: Inmate Michelle-Lael Norsworthy speaks during her parole hearing at Mule Creek State Prison in Ione, Calif. (AP) SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Gov. Jerry Brown is allowing parole for a transgender inmate who is trying to force California to become the first state to pay for sex reassignment surgery. A federal judge in April ordered the state to provide the surgery, which had been scheduled for July. It was delayed after the state appealed. ADVERTISEMENT The governor's office said Friday that Brown was taking no action on the Board of Parole Hearings' recommendation to release Michelle-Lael Norsworthy, which means her parole will proceed. The decision makes it less likely that the 51-year-old will be able to have surgery funded by the prison before she is released. Parole board spokesman Luis Patino said it usually takes about a week for an inmate to be released after the governor allows a parole to proceed. Brown decided Norsworthy is no longer dangerous, 30 years after she fatally shot Franklin Gordon Liefer Jr., 26, following an argument in a Fullerton bar in November 1985. Norsworthy, then 21, was convicted of second-degree murder after she shot Liefer three times. He died six weeks later. She is being held at Mule Creek State Prison, a men's prison in Ione, near Sacramento. Prison records refer to her by her birth name of Jeffrey Bryan Norsworthy, though she has lived as a woman since the 1990s. She was diagnosed with gender identity disorder in 1999 and began taking female hormones. She began asking the corrections department for the surgery in 2012 after learning a judge for the first time had ordered Massachusetts to provide an inmate with the procedure. However, that decision was overturned on appeal in December, and the U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene. The 9th Circuit agreed to hear California's appeal of U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar's ruling and a hearing is scheduled for Thursday. The appellate court noted that the case raises serious legal questions about whether denying the surgery violates Norsworthy's constitutional rights against cruel and unusual punishment. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation says it has met all of its legal requirements by providing Norsworthy with counseling and hormone therapy. The state filed paperwork in federal court Friday saying it has agreed to provide sex reassignment surgery for another inmate, Shiloh Quine, 56, to settle a separate lawsuit. "CDCR evaluates every case individually, and in the Quine case, every medical doctor and mental health clinician who has reviewed this case, including two independent mental health experts, determined that this surgery is medically necessary for Quine," corrections department spokesman Jeffrey Callison said in an emailed statement. Quine, formerly known as Rodney James Quine, is serving a life sentence for murder, kidnapping and robbery. Norsworthy testified at her parole hearing in May that she accepts responsibility for her crime. She said at the time, she was "pretty much drinking every day all day" but is now sober and attends Alcoholics Anonymous meetings in prison. She said she also takes steps to control her anger and make better judgments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clevfan4life Posted August 8, 2015 Report Share Posted August 8, 2015 i'd like to hear a liberals argument for taxpayers funding gender reassignment surgery. I have no problem with people going through it, it's their business. I just don't understand why A) It's something taxpayers should foot the bill for and Why a criminal should be allowed to get it while in prison, also on taxpayers dime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calfoxwc Posted August 9, 2015 Report Share Posted August 9, 2015 So the dem letists can accrue another segment of the very small deviant population's votes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WalterWhite Posted August 9, 2015 Report Share Posted August 9, 2015 California is embarrassing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gftChris Posted August 10, 2015 Report Share Posted August 10, 2015 i'd like to hear a liberals argument for taxpayers funding gender reassignment surgery. I have no problem with people going through it, it's their business. I just don't understand why A) It's something taxpayers should foot the bill for and Why a criminal should be allowed to get it while in prison, also on taxpayers dime. I got nothing. Frankly, I don't give a damn what you had lined up for after you were incarcerated - whether it's the ultra-circumcision or opera tickets, you give up that right in jail. Now, *if* he is ever found innocent, and decides to sue for damages, I can see this being included, because it's not a cheap deal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Furious Styles Posted August 10, 2015 Report Share Posted August 10, 2015 A FEDERAL judge made the decision not the state. The state challenged. The state parole would mean the prison is NOT responsible for the imates sex change. Did you even read the story because it doesn't match the point you're attempting to make ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westside Steve Posted August 10, 2015 Report Share Posted August 10, 2015 Then it sucks worse. The feds matter to us too as opposed to the idiots in the state of California. Of course I would want to be completely healed up before I got sent back to general population. That could be a treat. WSS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clevfan4life Posted August 10, 2015 Report Share Posted August 10, 2015 Ok enough of this tranny talk, if you put your ear up close to the screen you can make out the faint sounds of stuart fapping off in his mothers basement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StinkHole Posted August 10, 2015 Report Share Posted August 10, 2015 Ok enough of this tranny talk, if you put your ear up close to the screen you can make out the faint sounds of stuart fapping off in his mothers basement. Haha ..Cleve projecting his own perversion again... your call to cease tranny talk is only because you are an admitted self loathing tranny. The only fapping heard came from you when you noticed this tranny had lips resembling an anal sphincter. Your keyboard sticky much? Watch for them typos lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clevfan4life Posted August 10, 2015 Report Share Posted August 10, 2015 I can't see it, but I take it someone doesn't like his unemployed basement life being talked about. Fair enough, I wouldn't either. <coffee> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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