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Subject: not only here Author: They said no. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 18:26:12 02/19/08 Tue Transexual prison inmate loses sex-change lawsuit Posted by The Oregonian February 19, 2008 11:17AM Categories: Breaking News A federal judge has rejected an inmate's lawsuit seeking to force Oregon prison officials to pay for a sex-change operation and a transfer to a women's prison. U.S. Magistrate Judge Janice Stewart ruled that inmate Anny May Stevens could not pursue a federal lawsuit for a sex-change operation because the inmate had previously lost the same suit in state court. Stewart also ruled that it was reasonable for the state Department of Corrections to run single-sex prisons and base placement on the anatomical sex of inmates. "Requiring that segregation be made upon a person's self-professed gender identity, rather than their anatomical gender, would impose the onerous burden on prison officials of sorting out those with genuine gender identity issues from those who would feign such a condition in order to be placed into an opposite sex facility for more nefarious reasons," Stewart wrote in a ruling dated Feb. 15. Stevens, who filed the suit without a lawyer, is in the middle of an 18-year sentence for manslaughter. Stevens stabbed a man to death in downtown Portland in 1997. In addition to the sex-change operation and the transfer, the lawsuit also sought $5 million. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]