Stevens has received female hormones from the state since being incarcerated in 2003. He also entered prison with silicon breast and hip implants. But the 42-year-old, who is serving 50 years to life for killing a woman with a shotgun in a dispute over clothes, argued in the suit that hormone treatment is no longer adequate to combat his emotional distress.
In supporting documents, psychotherapist Lin Fraser - referring to Stevens as "her" - said she held "grave concerns" for Stevens' safety because the inmate "had been put alone in cells all night long with men who threatened and abused her." A study commissioned in the mid-2000s by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and conducted by the University of California Irvine found that transgender inmates were 13 times more likely to suffer sexual assault than other prisoners.
If Stevens' case is succesful, California will become the first US state required to provide gender reassignment surgery for inmates who demonstrate a pressing need. A federal court decision handed down in 1999 already requires prisons to provide hormone drugs to transgender patients if they were taking them before coming to prison.
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QUOTE: “....that the removal of her male genitalia and subsequent transfer to a female prison were necessary to save him from the threat of harm.
Stevens has received female hormones from the state since being incarcerated in 2003. He also entered prison with silicone breast and hip implants. But the 42-year-old, who is serving 50 years to life for killing a woman with a shotgun in a dispute over clothes, argued in the suit that hormone treatment is no longer adequate to combat his emotional distress.
In supporting documents, psychotherapist Lin Fraser - referring to Stevens as "her" - said she held "grave concerns" for Stevens' safety because the inmate "had been put alone in cells all night long with men who threatened and abused her." UNQUOTE:
WHAT!!! Are u kidding me!! “....transfer to a female prison were ‘NECESSARY’ to ‘SAVE HIM’ from the threat of ‘HARM’??!!
‘HE’ killed a woman with a shotgun in a dispute over some ‘CLOTHES’...and HE wants SOMEONE to ‘SAVE HIM’ from ‘HARM’?!
And ‘... that hormone treatment is no longer adequate to combat ‘HIS EMOTIONAL DISTRESS’
And the psychotherapist said, “....She held ‘GRAVE CONCERNS’ for Stevens ‘SAFETY’....”???!!!
What a self-absorbed, selfish, self-centred twerp!! ‘HE’ is ‘NOW’ so ‘CONCERNED’ about ‘HIS’ own ‘SAFETY’, but it seems to me that ‘HE’ had ‘NO CONCERN’ for the woman that ‘HE PULLED A SHOTGUN’ out on and ‘SHOT HER DEAD’?! I think those other females in the woman’s prison should be very ‘CONCERNED’ about this man walking amongst them as he is obviously a ‘THREAT’ to their ‘HARM’! I hold ‘GRAVE CONCERNS’ for the safety of those other women. This man is only thinking of his own self-preservation and he doesn’t give a damn for anyone else but ‘HIMSELF/HERSELF’!!
Why should he be given safety and compassion for his life now....he lost that right after the complete destruction of someone elses life!!
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