Ok I need to set things straight here for those either just unknowingly ignorant (not meant in a rude way) to such situations as this particular person and for those who perhaps just don't care at all and think since *they* don't have such issues, that it must be just craziness that leads to people like this one.

 First and foremost, NO ONE owes transexuals the money to fund their transition, that'd be rediculous.  You cannot legislate how people view you and you certainly can't make laws that say the people must fund your solution to the problem.  I can see how some would think they *should* (in the argument that its a disorder and some get state funded care for such) but again its in my opinion that funding of ANY hormone therapy is rediculous.

HERE is my main issue.  I agree with Sarc, why complain about funding female hormones when they were already blissfully wasting away taxpayers dollars on testosterone for this inmate?  I know many will deny it, but this is not only glaring evidence of a person who will play the system and the system caving right in instead of standing up for ethics. (afterall, a non-criminal transexual doesn't get tax money for HRT, why should a *criminal* transexual get it?!)  It is also an example of how people *STILL* are blatantly pushing the idea that it is 100% impossible that a genetic deficiency could ever occur in which a male's brain could be much closer to a female's brain or vice versa.  The brain *does* have pre-determined 'gender characteristics and dispositions' and this growth occurs (not always) but in the early stages, autonomously of the physical.  There are studies out there now that mention that, while not always, in many cases transexuals exhibit characteristics of female brain patterns in their own brain patterns.  I just don't see why they gave him testosterone without even having a formal diagnosis.  In my opinion, that is poor choice in medical decision making and again, it seems like rather than address the issue, or just dropping it as a non-issue (which is what they should do with criminals) they instead plugged him with tax funded testosterone because, and this may seem conspiracy theory of me to think so, but they did this in my opinion because people are afraid this case actually exists and figured (wrongly) that these 'feelings' were due to some testosterone deficiency.

Again, I'm not saying everyone needs to accept this, but by not, its sort of like saying AIDS didn't exist when it was first discovered.  I know transexuality totally throws off people from religious and scientific standpoints but the science is there and becomes more and more as time goes on.  I mean look at people with Klienfetter Syndrome (not sure if that's the right spelling.)  These are people born sort of 'on the fence' of gender.  If it can happen physically, why is it so terribly hard to think it could happen mentally?

This crime happened not very far from where I live (same county).

The AJC has a couple of stories on it, too.

Help Fred defeat everybody.