Sex Reassignment Surgery

After Sandra MacDougall said abuse, attacks and a threat to set her on fire had ruined her life, she was inundated with messages of support.

Imprisoned whistleblower Chelsea Manning ended her hunger strike after the Army agreed to provide medically prescribed treatment for her gender dysphoria.

“I really wanted to be a girl,” revealed the actor, but that by the time he was “15 I never wanted to be a woman again.”

The move comes after a petition by two transgender veterans seeking to have the ban on surgery lifted.

Gender reassignment surgery “is not something to be entered into lightly.”

To qualify, prisoners must be diagnosed with what is formally known as gender dysphoria and lived as their identified gender for at least 12 months.

Gov. Jerry Brown will decide whether Michelle-Lael Norsworthy should be released 30 years after she fatally shot 26-year-old Franklin Gordon Liefer Jr.

The separate decisions make it less likely that convicted killer Michelle-Lael Norsworthy will receive prison-funded sex reassignment surgery before she is released.

State officials say 51-year-old Michelle-Lael Norsworthy has postponed her parole hearing several times with the hope of having the surgery.

The state has asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for a stay as it appeals the San Francisco-based judge’s order.