In the latest sign of the times, a transgendered Minnesota inmate has filed a lawsuit against the Minnesota State Department of Corrections, alleging discrimination for not allowing sex reassignment surgery.
The inmate, 56-year-old Christina Lusk, is currently serving a sentence for felony drug abuse at the Minnesota Correctional Facility in Moose Lake, Minnesota. Lusk, all appearances decidedly to the contrary, is claiming to be “socially, medically, and legally” a female, and is accusing the Department of Corrections of refusing to recognize this demonstrable fact, according to the Star Tribune.
The advocacy group Gender Justice, based in St. Paul, filed the lawsuit on Lusk’s behalf. The suit names Minnesota’s Department of Corrections, together with Commissioner Paul Schnell, Deputy Commissioner Michelle Smith, and Medical Director James Amsterdam—all of whom serve on the Department’s “transgender committee,” which is empaneled to adjudicate requests from transgendered prisoners about these matters.
The suit seeks $50,000 in damages as well as a “permanent mandatory injunction” so that Lusk might be treated as a woman and promptly removed from the male-only correctional facility. Lusk claims to have been sexually abused by other inmates, as well as experienced “discrimination” from them.
NEW CASE ALERT! Christina Lusk is a transgender woman in the custody of the Minnesota Department of Corrections being housed in an all-male prison.
We have teamed up with @RobinsKaplan to fight for her right right to be treated with dignity and respect. https://t.co/tG4yaGU0yM pic.twitter.com/SjAGNdnPjw
— Gender Justice (@GenderJustice) June 7, 2022
According to the Star Tribune, Lusk began receiving a course of “cross-sex hormones” in 2009. Lusk then changed his name to “Christina” in 2018, and was apparently consulting with doctors about various surgical procedures prior to his arrest in 2019. Lusk had already undergone “top surgery,” referring to the addition of breasts, and was “on the verge of scheduling” a vaginoplasty—a surgical operation whose ultimate purpose the reader can probably guess.
Reasonably, the panel’s medical consultant, James Amsterdam, concluded that Lusk had no pressing need for genital surgery, but was certainly welcome to pursue any such measures upon being released from prison. But this wasn’t satisfactory. Lusk filed a grievance with the Department of Corrections in 2019, writing: “I have been diagnosed with severe Gender Dysphoria. I have attempted suicide four times due to my severe distress caused by my GD as well as self mutilation. My mental capacity is under control, and I am able to make good decisions as far as surgery. I have letters of support from my primary physician, my gender specialist, my therapist, as well as my psychiatrist, only two letters are required for surgery but I go up and beyond what is required.”
She is recognized socially, medically, and legally as female — including by the State of Minnesota. Despite this, the DOC has not only subjected Ms. Lusk to discrimination and harassment in male facilities, but for months refused to acknowledge her legal name, Christina Lusk.
— Gender Justice (@GenderJustice) June 7, 2022
Lusk’s lawsuit also chides the Minnesota Department of Corrections for having the temerity to place inmates in correctional facilities based on their actual genital equipment, rather than medical or legal standing. This, the lawsuit claims, is “in violation of the Minnesota Human Rights Act, the Minnesota Constitution and the Prison Rape Elimination Act.”
“Transgender people disproportionately face abuse and harassment in state institutions including jails and prisons, schools, healthcare facilities, and more,” said Jess Braverman, the legal director at Gender Justice, in a statement associated with the lawsuit.
“Every person in custody deserves to be protected from violence and harassment. We need our systems, such as the [Minnesota] Department of Corrections (DOC), to do better now to protect all vulnerable groups, including transgender people.”
“Every person in custody deserves to be protected from violence and harassment. We need our systems to do better now to protect all vulnerable groups, including transgender people.” — @Jess_Braverman, Gender Justice Legal Director https://t.co/tG4yaGU0yM
— Gender Justice (@GenderJustice) June 7, 2022
For its part, the Minnesota Department of Corrections explained to the Star Tribune that it is “committed to ensuring the safety and well-being of transgender incarcerated individuals.” So, for the time being, it seems Christina Lusk is out of luck.
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25 thoughts on “Minnesota trans inmate sues prison after being denied ‘vaginoplasty’”
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When an individual decides to do something ‘voluntarily’, the public (government funded) should not have to pay for it. Anything that is not mandatory is voluntary. He has the right to think he’s a woman if he chooses to think so. I do not have to subsidize his thinking.
If “Christine” can afford the surgery, she should go for it. If someone else has to pay for it; no fn way!
he can not change his DNA. the cosmetic alterations do not make a difference. But call yourself whatever you want. Just stay out of the girls bathroom.
I would’ve thought Christy’s new “FRIENDS” would be very protective of their new “biotch” . I guess Christy thought serving a PRISON sentence would be like “ Life is a bowl of cherries “
OM (Dear)G!!!
I hope it gets azz-r*ped until bleeds to death. Sincerely I do…
Good lord people are stupid. If I go to jail will they pay for a face lift and tummy tuck? I mean it depresses me I do not look 30 anymore.
Let the scum pay for their own perversions ! No taxpayer dollars for this type of insanity !
What does it say when someone attempts suicide four times, but doesn’t succeed?
1) They’ve found something they’re not good at doing.
2) They really don’t want to kill themselves and are reaching out for help.
3) They are mentally unsound.
Mentally unsound people are unable to make intelligent decisions about their health.
I’d be pissed too if they wouldn’t allow me to get MY VAJAYJAY fixed! Wouldn’t you!?
Doesn’t say what it’s crime was that bad other than felony drug. Not seeing a lot of people go to prison these days, so was this something it did thinking it would get automatically paid for on the citizen’s dime rather than pay for it itself? Then surprise Dude/Dudess, the freebie surgery didn’t happen.
I do research in this area. there are no clinical studies to support his “need” for mutilation surgery.
Maybe he can get a free chopadictomy, with a shiv in the shower.
Maybe I missed it but is it the Tax Payer’s that has to foot the bill on all these ones that are in Prison, am I wrong ? It isn’t the Tax Payer’s duty to pay for these Mentally Ill Clown’s and that is just what all these Trans are. They are all Screwed upstair’s.
You’re right; we’d have to pay for it. Which is ridiculous, of course. I’ve heard some of the chatter about how a number of prisons treat their inmates better than many of us live out here in the free world. Showing people they can get needless operations when incarcerated will only encourage more abuse of a badly “reformed” “system”.
So let me see if I understand this new concept: If you are man who says he is now transgendered, then now he is to only be considered or referred to as a woman, and if you are a woman who says she is transgendered to a man, she, now will only be referred to as “male” on her say so? Doesn’t this strike the thinking person as NUTS! There are TWO sexes, male and female! You can call yourself whatever you want, but it doesn’t change reality. You are simply a man pretending to be a woman, and or a woman pretending to be a man. Your birth determines which, not your feelings of the moment. Of course you can still live as someone of the other sex and no one will stop you from doing so. You can believe whatever you want to believe, you just can’t force me to believe whatever YOU want me to believe. Sounds fair to me.
In other word’s Both of these Thing’s are Queer.
If a male human cuts his dick and balls off he becomes a Eunuch not a woman.
This wack-job needs to look in his underpants and quit whining. As the prison board said, he can pursue whatever surgery he wants when he gets out of prison!
I don’t want Lusk to commit suicide, and I hate hearing that the poor soul suffered sexual abuse from the other inmates in his current prison. Still, what about the women in the facility he wants to transfer to? Getting him the vaginoplasty he wants probably won’t keep him from passing his experiences onto others, if you know what I mean. How terrible that the keyboard warriors on his side of the issue don’t want to deal with that question.
Mr. Lusk is a felon who is trying to use the system against itself. If he wants a vagina, wait until release from prison and have at it.
I didn’t say anything for or against that part. I only said it wouldn’t really help anybody, especially if he gets that transfer he wants so badly.
I feel really bad for this he/she – my suggestion would be to stay away from illegal activities and you won’t have to worry about which prison you’re sent to.
Sounds simple, but there are wrinkles. Off the top of my head, quite a few drugs hijack the circuitry related to decision-making, rewards, and will-power in your brain. That’s what makes them so addicting. Remember, he was put in for felony drug-abuse. And given that datum (as well as his psychological condition), I expect he’ll have trouble getting back in with good crowds once he’s released. Without the right people around you, beating a drug addiction becomes even harder, if not impossible. Developing a community-based (not federal or state-level) component to the problem could go a long way towards helping people like him keep out of trouble in the future.
You are so right. If you start talking to the same old Druggie Group again your right back where you started. Make this Screwed up thing, when IT gets out pay for its own Damn Sugery. That is the whole thing, IT doesn’t want to spend thsat kind of money to be cut up and for what ? IT will still be a Man. That is the way made you ( Man ) and you will Die as a Man.