If homeboy is paying out of his or her pocket for it that is fine.. but if the taxpayers are paying for this that is just phucking ridiculous.

It would be racist and homerphobical for taxpayers to not want to pay, no?

This undated file photo provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections shows Antione Lee. Lee, a transgender prison inmate in Ohio wants a federal judge to order the state to allow her hormone treatments to continue permanently. The inmate says she suffered a medical setback including facial hair growth and depression when the treatments stopped.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A transgender prison inmate who complained about losing her breast tissue and growing facial hair after her hormone treatments were stopped must receive the treatments for the rest of her time behind bars, a federal judge ruled Friday.

Inmate Whitney Lee had undergone continuous hormone therapy since 1999 until the correction department abruptly halted the treatments in 2012. Lee, whose legal name is still Antione Lee, says she suffered a medical setback and depression when the treatments stopped.

After a two-day hearing, Judge Algenon Marbley ordered the state on Friday to permanently continue the treatments. He had issued an order last month that they be temporarily continued until a hearing.

A message left with the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction wasn't immediately returned Friday. The prisons agency had said a psychiatrist determined Lee lacks the criteria for gender identity disorder and the therapy can't be justified.

Lee's attorney, Ngozi Ndulue, said the judge's decision was the right one and means Lee will get the treatment until released from prison in about seven months. Lee's damages claim for $75,000 is still in place, Ndulue said.

The 36-year-old Lee is housed with men at Mansfield Correctional Institution, where she is serving a three-year sentence on forgery and theft charges out of Hamilton County. Lee had previously received the treatments at home, in federal prison and in the Hamilton County Justice Center, according to a request for an emergency order filed by the Cincinnati-based Ohio Justice & Policy Center. That included estrogen treatment approved by prison authorities while Lee was imprisoned in 2009 and 2010, the request said.

Lee has been living as a woman since age 18, the center's complaint said. Without the treatments, Lee lost breast tissue, her voice deepened, her skin became coarser and she began growing facial hair, among other symptoms, the request said. She also has grown irritable and angry and was placed on suicide watch, according to the request.

"Deprivation of hormone treatment wreaks havoc on Ms. Lee's physical and mental health and puts her life in danger," it said. The prisons department argued that Lee didn't exhaust the prison grievance procedures and that the case should be dismissed. It cited other cases, including that of a Texas inmate, in which courts have upheld prisons' decisions not to administer the treatment.

The state said that even if its medical diagnosis were called into question, it would be at most an issue of medical malpractice, not a violation of constitutional rights.

If that is the case then we shouldn't discriminate against women with small breasts and we should fund all of their enhancement surgeries. . If 1 women has 38DD then so should all women..

male logic...I should copy and paste this over to the "Think Like A Man" thread

lighten up a little. I totally agree that this type of elective medication should not be a taxpayer expense. He/she needs to sign up for obummercare

I am not serious... obviously...

This is to illustrate a point as to how ridiculous this concept of funding everyones self loathing is the tax payers problem..

lighten up a little. I totally agree that this type of elective medication should not be a taxpayer expense. He/she needs to sign up for obummercare




Oh AND Mr. Not Serious, there is not just a tiny part of your brain (near the base of your skull) that really does wish that all women were 38DD??....be honest please

I wouldn't want to see every woman at 38DD..

Somewhere between 34D and 36DD is acceptable I suppose..