The same old story…

Maybe you’ve already heard about Kitty Grey.  Or Sabrina Trujillo.  Maybe you haven’t.  If you haven’t, it’s something you’ve heard before: A transgendered person who is incarcerated and wants SRS.

I hear about stories like this several times a year.  And I always cringe: I feel like I should be sympathetic, and supportive of people like Kitty.  Prison is not a good place to be in the first place, and to be transgendered and incarcerated with all kinds of monsters has to be worse.  I can imagine that TGs get traded around like a commodity behind bars.  No-one should have to suffer sexual slavery.  (Unless of course, they’re into that sort of thing.) 

And to deny Kitty the surgery she needs to be a healthy human being?  That seems to border on “cruel and unusual punishment”. 

But, on the other hand, who put Kitty and Sabrina where they are today?  They did when they committed the crimes.  And honestly?  I can’t muster a whole lot of sympathy for someone who molested a child.  Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time. 

Why should taxpayers have to shell out the dough to pay for SRS?  We’re already paying for HRT in many cases.  And can it not be argued that if we do pay for SRS of prisoners, someone at the end of their rope will commit a crime and surrender in hopes of getting the surgery?  (Don’t doubt this could happen.  You and I both know there are those among us crazy enough to try it.)

Am I wrong?  Am I cold and heartless? 

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