A federal inmate has won a legal fight to secure gender-affirming surgery from the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, according to the woman’s lawyers.
Cristina Nichole Iglesias, who has been in prison for almost two decades for threatening to use a weapon of mass destruction, is set to become the first inmate in federal custody to receive the surgery, according to her attorneys.
GOPUSA Editor’s Note: Please keep in mind that this is a mainstream media story. The pronouns and gender descriptions belong to the source. The source of the story is in the dateline. We publish it for the purpose of informing our readers and providing an opportunity to discuss it. What is GOPUSA? Read our About Us page to find out.
“I feel so relieved,” Iglesias said in a statement. “I fought for so long to get the health care I need, but wasn’t sure this day would ever come. Now, the federal government has finally agreed to provide me with gender-affirming surgery. This will change my life and allow me to live as the woman I am. Gender-affirming care is necessary, lifesaving, and — for me and so many others — long overdue.”
As part of the settlement with the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, the agency agreed to provide Iglesias with “vaginoplasty” and “other medically necessary gender-affirming procedures, including permanent facial hair removal, facial-feminization surgery and breast augmentation,” according to ACLU Illinois, whose lawyers represent Iglesias.
“Because of BOP’s long delays in providing Ms. Iglesias’ care, any surgeries that occur after Ms. Iglesias is released from BOP custody will be paid for from an escrow fund administered by a retired federal judge,” the ACLU said in a statement.
Iglesias is currently housed in a residential re-entry center in Florida. She is expected to be released later this year.
Iglesias has tried for years to persuade the bureau to approve her surgery. She filed a lawsuit in 2019 while she was housed in the federal prison in downstate Marion.
According to that lawsuit, at age 12, Iglesias told her mother she wanted to live as a girl. In 2009, she tried to castrate herself, the suit states.
In April, the federal judge overseeing the legal case accused the bureau of prisons of treating the case as a game of “whack-a-mole” and threatened the agency with fines.
“Throughout this litigation, the Federal Bureau of Prisons has employed tactics similar to the game of Plinko on ‘The Price is Right.’ BOP was warned for employing these tactics, and it apologized,” U.S. District Chief Judge Nancy J. Rosenstengel of the Southern District of Illinois wrote in a memo and order. “Now BOP’s tactics are turning into a game of ‘whack-a-mole.’ Indeed, it appeared the last of BOP’s moles had been ‘whacked.’ Then another one ‘popped up.’”
At the time, Rosenstengel ordered weekly updates and a detailed plan to make sure that Iglesias got the surgery.
© © Copyright 2022 Sun-Times Media, LLC. All rights reserved.
—-
This content is published through a licensing agreement with Acquire Media using its NewsEdge technology.
What right does a sexually perverted criminal have to make taxpayers pay for its gender and facial plastic surgery?
The treachery of the treasonous, immoral, socialist Democrat Party know no bounds.
NONE.. In fact, unless its LIFE THREATENING, we the tax victim, shouldn’t PAY ONE RED CENT for prisoners health care…
“…. Iglesias said in a statement. “I fought for so long to get the health care I need but wasn’t sure this day would ever come. Now, the federal government has finally agreed to provide me with gender-affirming surgery.” ….Iglesias has been playing the game, Now ” IT,” can be all that ” It ” THAT IT WANTED TO BE , Thanks to the taxpayers ,You and Me.
Are the courts and government employees all as stupid as they appear? When they decide some nut job that wants to change their gender and the taxpayers will pay for it something is seriously wrong with their logic. We have honest taxpaying people that can’t even afford any health coverage yet we are forced to pay for the weird minded. What a screwed up country we have become!
More and more, YES IT DOES seem that all judges and gubmint workers are wingnuts.
OH, COME On MAN! As Joe Biden Has Said,
Don’t You Feel Sorry l For This Prison Inmate, we all have days when we don’t feel like ourselves, Don’t We??
NO i do not feel sorry for “IT”.
I suppose he will want a new trial—“she” can now claim that “he” did it.
LOL!!! Good post.
When the ACLU wins a case they bill the government at their hourly rate. Non profit does not mean not profitable
I know, let’s nail his nuts to a stump and push him over backwards. See, fixed it!
NA>. USE a chainsaw.. AND DO NOT use any anesthetic..
I was thinking the same thing. Like when I had to castrate hogs several years ago working on a hog farm. Use a razor sharp knife and cut. Then dump alcohol on the wound. Talk about squealing like a pig!
I’ve been waiting 3 months to see an eye specialist. Now I’m waiting to see if insurance will pay. I have Significant cataract .it is medically necessary. I just don’t see hair removal as medical necessity.
Good grief. The whack jobs have taken over.
The US gets more and more wacky with each passing day. This case may be the ultimate, this one takes the cake. And we have to pay for this weirdo to get his affirming surgery. Way to go gubment – a wasteful, useless, misguided, corrupt, unprincipled, amoral entity.
I believe that the U S Military also does vaginoplasty and the taxpayers pay for it-
Going to pay for it in more ways than one. Today’s sissy military will lose the next war.
Name one war we WON, since WW2?