Why are taxpayers being forced to pay for elective surgery? And a detrimental elective surgery!
BOISE – Idaho said Wednesday it will appeal a recent court ruling ordering the state to provide gender confirmation surgery to a transgender inmate.
The Idaho Department of Correction filed a notice advising U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill that the state will appeal his ruling to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The inmate would be the first in Idaho to get the procedure while in state custody and only the second inmate in the nation to receive the surgery.
“The hard working taxpayers of Idaho should not be forced to pay for a prisoner’s gender reassignment surgery when individual insurance plans won’t even cover it,” Republican Gov. Brad Little said in a prepared statement.
Idaho appeals ruling ordering surgery for transgender inmate
News > Idaho UPDATED: Wed., Jan. 9, 2019, 10:16 p.m. BOISE – Idaho said Wednesday it will appeal a recent court ruling ordering the state to provide gender confirmation surgery to a transgender inmate. The Idaho Department of Correction filed a notice advising U.S. District Judge B.