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| Inmate Demands Sex Change Operation |
| 2006-03-26 |
| EFL...the latest "prisoner right"? With B-cup-sized breasts, a feminine gait and long, curly hair, Christopher "Kitty" Grey causes a stir every time the inmate enters a cellblock. But instead of reveling in the attention as he is moved from prison to prison, Grey, who is serving 16 years to life for molesting an 8-year-old girl for five years, said he cringes every time he hears the whistles and catcalls. The transgendered inmate said he belongs in a women's prison, but, by state policy, he can't because he has male genitalia. Well....let him loose in the general population, and I'm sure the other inmates will take care of it for you for free, pervert. Grey believes Colorado has a constitutional obligation to perform a sex-change operation on him so he can go to a women's prison. I guess he was too busy molesting that kid to catch a bus to Trinidad. He's filed a lawsuit against the state, demanding he be given a psychologist who is a gender specialist. The state is already providing Grey with 2 milligrams a day of estrace, which softens his skin, and 50 milligrams of aldactone, which suppresses testosterone and promotes breast growth. He and 18 other transgendered Colorado inmates get the medicine or special psychological counseling. Those who get the medicine do so because they were already using it before their convictions and it would cause too much emotional upheaval in their lives if it were denied. Hormone treatments cost between $50 and $500 a year, said Dr. James Michaud, chief of mental health for the Colorado Department of Corrections. And a sex-change operation can cost $14,000 or more, Grey said. "We're not in the business of providing elective care," said Dr. Cary Shames, the Department of Corrections' chief medical officer. Currently, no state pays for or performs sex-change operations for inmates, although some inmates have tried to get them to. But some, including Colorado, do allow for hormone treatment, and other states, including Kansas, have tried to fight that. In other prisons, he twice became the sexual partner of tougher inmates who protected him, saying it was only for survival's sake. "I shouldn't have to prostitute myself to remain safe," Grey said. Inmates at every prison he's been at have insisted he become their lover, and he has narrowly escaped being raped, he said. Unlike your victim, who put up with it for five years.... Guards also have been perplexed about what to do with Phillip "Sabrina" Trujillo, a transgendered inmate who is in Colorado's Sterling Correctional Facility. Guards have repeatedly tried to wash Trujillo's eyeliner and moles off his face only to discover that the features are tattooed on. Even though information about the tattoos is documented in his prison file, it hasn't stopped guards from "writing me up" for using makeup, he said. "It's not for show. It's who I am," Trujillo said. "I'm a lady." Cue Aerosmith.... He said guards frequently strip-search him and rifle through his cell looking for feminine possessions, such as perfume, which is contraband. He also says he's been beaten. "They're homophobic," Trujillo said. "They try to make prison more of a living hell." Er...nope. Not all gay men dress as girls. They just don't dig ugly crossdressers. And you wouldn't have been in that "living hell" if you would have been a nice boy/girl. Try again, sunshine. In his teens, Trujillo stabbed a man six times in the groin during a fight started because the man was angry after discovering Trujillo's true gender. He spent time in a juvenile facility. In 2002, he was sentenced to 16 years for motor-vehicle theft and robbery. So...he can still catch the bus to Trinidad when he gets out in 2018, right? Start saving your pennies, now, "Sabrina", and they can fix you up any way you like, honey... Trujillo said he is consigned to his fate in a male prison but believes, like Grey, that he belongs in a women's facility. Grey has been in segregation since he arrived at Limon and was told there was a death threat made against him by gang members. It was the latest evidence, he said, that he should never stop fighting for a sex change. "If I can't change my brain to match my body, I'm going to change my body to match my brain." |
| Posted by:Desert Blondie |
| #4 Yeah, I heard about her on the Discovery Channel. Fun fact....she was one of Dr Biber's former patients. I kid you not. |
| Posted by: Desert Blondie 2006-03-26 20:38 |
| #3 To bring you up to date, DB, Dr Stanley Biber, the sex reassigment surgeon who put Trinidad, Colorado on the sex change map, died in January at age 82. He had previously retired in 2003. However,there is another doctor in Trinidad, a woman, who does that kind of surgery. So I guess we can still make jokes about the place. |
| Posted by: GK 2006-03-26 17:38 |
| #2 It's all about his "emotional upheaval". All about him. what he needs and makes him happy. No mention of the victim or a his part in a horrific crime that must have caused massive emotional upheaval. Nope, just about him and his emotional happiness. General pop. Child molester. |
| Posted by: Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-03-26 15:59 |
| #1 I'm sure one of their fellow inmates would be glad to do it . And for a nominal fee. Maybe even gratis... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2006-03-26 12:20 |