Where Are They

To all those who are arguing for Michelle Kosilek, an inmate serving a life sentence in Massachusetts, to have taxpayer paid Sex Reassignment Surgery (SRS) after a federal judge ordered it, where have you been and where are you now arguing for the right of all transwomen who are identified for SRS to be paid by the person's health insurance companies?

Huh? All I've heard is talk about this inmate's right to SRS because of their designation of Gender Identity Dysphoria (GID) which has a prescribed treatment for the patient to become physically women and then can become legally women.

All I've heard is this inmate's right under the Constitution as a prisoner. But what about all the women who have transitioned and paid for SRS out of their own pocket, or most the women who will have surgery and have health insurance but are denied coverage for GID, including SRS?

Very few transwomen get SRS paid by their employer (most) or the health insurance company (few, and only when employer requires and pays for it). No one is denying the inmate's right to SRS, we're only saying the responsibility to pay for it is the inmate's and not the State of Massachusetts.

Instead of yelling for the inmate's rights, I'd love to hear more voices about the rights of all the free women needing a medically prescribed proceedure covered by their health insurance. Where are they? Where are those voices?