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To: greenspirit who wrote (19633)	4/2/1998 3:39:00 PM
From: Mesaba	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

>> ...what makes me ill is when I hear stories of prisoners getting operations like that and costing the tax payers thousands of bucks. << As liberal as I may sound I still think prison is prison and prisoners are prisoners. I am torn on this one though. I am for paying for the drugs and operations that keep people alive be it from heart disease or what have you. But even for me the idea of paying for a prisoner to change his or her gender makes me cringe. However, sex reassignment surgery CAN be as life saving as a heart transplant. They call it gender dysphoria and it is as life threatening as a heart attack, depression, or any other illness even though they hate calling it an illness. Hmmmmm, M

To: greenspirit who wrote (19633)	4/3/1998 8:09:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Michael, as I also explained to X, I have done a web search and found exactly no evidence whatsoever that taxpayers are paying for sex change surgeries for transsexuals, anywhere at all. Since X wants to get her breasts done, and Penni seems willing to go along riding shotgun on a crime spree if she can have some surgery also, I am wondering if you could provide some evidence that these elective surgeries are being performed in prisons? I am confident that even Del, as ethical as he is, might be tempted by the possibility of committing a misdemeanor in order to have his eyes done, gratis. I would hate for us all to commit crimes and then discover that no surgeries were forthcoming!! The trend I see in prisons is for very essential medical and psychological services to be denied, so I am very interested to see what state pays for all these surgeries. Perhaps I will move there, so I can get a nip and tuck of some sort, myself. Christine