A prisoner who claims to be a transgender woman who reportedly strangled her 11 -month -old daughter to death will receive the sex transition operation funded by the state.
Autumn Cordellione, born Jonathan Richardson, was sentenced in Indiana in 2001 to 55 years behind bars for killing her stepchild while her partner was working.
In 2023 she asked, but was refused by the sex transition operation – led her to a lawsuit at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
A federal judge discovered that she was at risk of damage if she did not receive an operation and granted an order – a legal order that someone obliges to do something – Cordelse Undergo an orchiectomy, to remove testicles and a vaginoplasty to turn the penis into a vagina. In general, these operations usually cost around $ 27,000 in total.
The decision to let the operations move forward, despite the opinion of a psychologist, who said that Cordellione had no gender dysphoria and did not need the operations, but rather looking for attention.
But the ACLU said that refusal to organize the operations violate the eighth amendment – that is not an excessive punishment.
The Indiana Department of Corrections (Idoc), which had refused the operations, argued that it could not finance them because of an Indiana State Law that prohibits the use of taxpayers for gender crossing procedures for prisoners.
Despite that, it is now ordered to arrange them and find a surgeon for Cordellione-Die by the only gender-transitics clinic of the state because it said it did not operate on prisoners.
Autumn Cordellione, born Jonathan Richardson, is shown above in a non-dated photo
Cordellione did not come to the fore to confirm which pronouns she uses or her legal name uses, but she uses the lawsuit against the iDOC and refers to the prisoner as an autumn cordellione.
In his first case from mid-2023, the ACLU argued that Cordellione was a 'adult transgender woman, limited in a male institution'.
It also said that the operations were a 'medical necessity' that claimed that her genitals remained a 'source of extreme and constant need' and brought the prisoner to 'soil [herself] Instead of using the toilet because of the stress of seeing [her] genitals'.
Judge Richard Young initially issued an order in September 2024, but it was renewed last week – first reported by Reduxx – after it was challenged by the iDOC.
The judge said that the Department caused 'irreparable damage' by refusing to finance the operations.
In the order, Judge Young ordered the iDOC to arrange the operations.
The iDoc then challenged this after the only surgeon who does gender crossing operations in the state refused to operate on Cordellione.
The department also received an opinion from Dr. Kelsey Beers, main psychologist at New Castle Correctional Facility, who suggested that Cordellione was not transgender.
Above is the new Castle Correctional Facility in Indiana, an average security safety prison. Richardson is locked up at Branchville Correctional Facility
In judicial archives it said: 'Dr. Beers concluded that Mrs. Cordellione was not a good candidate for an operation because of her conclusion that Mrs. Cordellione has no gender dysphoria at all.
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Dr. Beers also said that the claim of gender dysphoria can be linked to Cordellione's suspected antisocial personality disorder and borderline personality disorder.
Nevertheless, Judge Young rejected the new evidence earlier this month and renewed its order to order the state to the operations of Scheule Cordellione.
The ACLU said that in 2020 Cordellione started transferring gender and feminating hormones and testosterone blockers.
She has been filling in rules since, without a break, the organization said.
The ACLU also said that Cordellione now has access to close-fitting clothing and makeup.
Cordellione was convicted of killing her 11-months old stepdaughter in 2001 after an autopsy demonstrated that she had been strangled manually while her mother was working.
She told investigators that she also shook the child 'in a rough way' and at some point, while she was locked up, she told corrections officers: “Well, I only know I know the little f *** ING TEEF,” reported the daily thread.
According to estimates, there are more than 5,000 transgender prisoners in American prisons, although it is not clear how much is spent on gender crossing operations.
In 2023 it was revealed that California had spent the most populated state-$ 4 million in tax money on sex changes operations for 157 prisoners from 2017 to 2023. Four of these people stood in the death cell.
Of these, $ 2.5 million was spent on vaginoplasties for 35 transvention prisoners, while $ 180,000 was spent on breast implants for 11 transvention prisoners and $ 184,000 in feminization surgery for face.
