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Activity: Reconstructive Surgery for Gender

Dysphoria: Self

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Directed: Nongraded

Activity: Reconstructive Surgery for Gender Dysphoria: Self

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Directed:

Nongraded

To complete this activity, read the following scenario:

Michelle is a thirty

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four

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year

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old Cauca

sian female who is incarcerated

for five years on charges of serious domestic assault on her sister. She

has four years remaining of her sentence. She has a documented case of

gender dysphoria. She is a female physically, but all her life, she has

felt lik

e a male emotionally and mentally. She takes hormone therapy

(testosterone) to help her acquire some of the physical characteristics of

a male. Just as with needed dental and medical services, the state

correctional facility is required to provide Michelle

with hormone

therapy (medication) as well as weekly therapy sessions to discuss her

emotional distress related to her gender dysphoria. Michelle wants to

proceed with full gender reconstruction surgery to permanently alter

her anatomy from female to male

in order to become Michael. Since

her prison therapist has reluctantly admitted that becoming a male

would alleviate a fair amount of Michelle’s emotional distress,

Michelle decides to ask the state to pay for her gender change surgery.

The state declines

to do so. Michelle is now suing the state to pay for

her gender reconstructive surgery to physically become a male.

After reading the scenario, discuss your position on whether the state

should pay for the gender change surgery for an incarcerated individu

al

with gender dysphoria? Why or why not?

 Activity: Reconstructive Surgery for Gender

Dysphoria: Self-Directed: Nongraded

Activity: Reconstructive Surgery for Gender Dysphoria: Self-Directed:

Nongraded

To complete this activity, read the following scenario:

Michelle is a thirty-four-year-old Caucasian female who is incarcerated

for five years on charges of serious domestic assault on her sister. She

has four years remaining of her sentence. She has a documented case of

gender dysphoria. She is a female physically, but all her life, she has

felt like a male emotionally and mentally. She takes hormone therapy

(testosterone) to help her acquire some of the physical characteristics of

a male. Just as with needed dental and medical services, the state

correctional facility is required to provide Michelle with hormone

therapy (medication) as well as weekly therapy sessions to discuss her

emotional distress related to her gender dysphoria. Michelle wants to

proceed with full gender reconstruction surgery to permanently alter

her anatomy from female to male in order to become Michael. Since

her prison therapist has reluctantly admitted that becoming a male

would alleviate a fair amount of Michelle’s emotional distress,

Michelle decides to ask the state to pay for her gender change surgery.

The state declines to do so. Michelle is now suing the state to pay for

her gender reconstructive surgery to physically become a male.

After reading the scenario, discuss your position on whether the state

should pay for the gender change surgery for an incarcerated individual

with gender dysphoria? Why or why not?