Indiana’s first transgender policy proposal this year has advanced out of a House committee.
The house bill would prohibit the Indiana Department of Correction from using any state or federal dollars to provide sexual reassignment surgery to state prison inmates.
According to The Times of Northwest Indiana, one inmate who recently secured a court order authorizing the surgery would still be able to get it under the plan.
The Indiana ACLU insists the legislation is unconstitutional and could lead to the state ignoring other prisoners’ medical needs.
The state Attorney General’s office says they are prepared to defend it in court if the bill goes all the way.
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Gender change is not a medical “need” it’s a want driven by mental illness.
Your gender is assigned by the XX/XY chromosomes. There is a vanishingly small percentage where this is not true and those are considered mutations (follow the science!). Believing you are something other than what is physically obvious is a mental illness. Demanding that everyone else believe that what is is not because you think so is sociopathy.
The state is right in not funding this “need”.