By Jay Greenberg
A federal court has ruled that taxpayers in the state of Idaho will have to pay for a convicted pedophile to undergo "gender reassignment" surgery while in prison for abusing a minor.
31-year-old transgender inmate Mason Dean Edmo was convicted of sexually abusing a child under 16 years old, according to jail records.
The sex offender is due to remain in prison until July 2021.
Edmo, who now goes by the name Adree and says he is a woman, wants his male anatomy surgically removed in an effort to "transition" into a female.
Because Edmo is a biological male, he is being held in a men’s prison.
In a December 2018 ruling (pdf), U.S. District Court Judge B. Lynn Winmell said that by not wanting to fund the surgery for Edmo, the Idaho Department of Correction and Corizon is putting the inmate at risk of harm.
“For more than forty years, the Supreme Court has consistently held that consciously ignoring a prisoner’s serious medical needs amounts to cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment,” the judge wrote in a ruling.
“Plaintiff Adree Edmo alleges that prison authorities violated her Eighth Amendment rights by refusing to provide her with gender confirmation surgery. The Court agrees.”
He claimed that the surgery was “considered medically necessary under generally accepted standards of care,” citing the ruling by a department psychiatrist and psychologist that Edmo has gender dysphoria, a medical condition where a person thinks they’re the other gender and that the judge wrote “is so severe that it impairs the individual’s ability to function.”
On Aug. 23, a federal court ruled that Edmo can have the surgery and it will be funded by the state.
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By Jay Greenberg
A Native American activist has blasted 2020 Democrat Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), accusing her ancestors of being "white squatters" who were "complicit in Cherokee dispossession."
Cherokee Nation citizen Rebecca Nagle slammed the presidential hopeful in a Huffington Post op-ed, urging Warren to "tell the truth" about her dark ancestorial past.
According to Nagle, Warren's maiden family, the Crawfords, were allegedly “white squatters” on Cherokee land and were complicit in Native American oppression.
In a post titled “Elizabeth Warren Has Spent Her Adult Life Repeating A Lie.” I Want Her To Tell The Truth,” author Nagle demands that the senator confesses her ancestors' true links to the Native American community.
Nagle said she was unmoved by the apology Warren issued at the Native American Presidential Forum Monday, where the Massachusetts senator admitted she made a “mistake” but did not elaborate on what the mistake was.
“Like anyone who’s been honest with themselves, I know that I have made mistakes,” Warren told the crowd.
“I am sorry for harm I have caused.”
“I have listened and I have learned a lot, and I am grateful for the many conversations we have had together,” she added.
By Jay Greenberg
Popstar Taylor Swift has vowed to "do everything I can for 2020," pledging to use her "influence" against President Donald Trump and his "disgusting rhetoric."
Speaking during an interview with The Guardian, the 29-year-old singer-songwriter declared she wants a leader who is pro-abortion and said she thinks President Trump is tearing the country apart.
“We’re a democracy – at least, we’re supposed to be – where you’re allowed to disagree, dissent, debate,” she said.
“I really think that [Trump] thinks this is an autocracy.”
The "Lover" songstress admitted she felt torn about what America stood for after the 2016 election.
She accused Trump of using “all the dirtiest tricks in the book" to win the last election, claiming that "it worked."
Swift says that, during his presidency, Trump has created an atmosphere through “gaslighting the American public into being like, ‘If you hate the president, you hate America.’"
By Jack Murphy
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