By C1 Staff
BOSTON, Mass. — The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal filed by a transgender inmate who sought to force the Massachusetts Department of Corrections to pay for a sex-change surgery.
MassLive reports that Michelle Kosilek has been in a 13-year dispute with the MDOC over her medical care and says that she suffers from gender identity disorder. She was born Robert Kosilek and is serving a life sentence for murdering her wife in 1990.
In 2012, a ruling ordered the DOC to provide the surgery, but that decision was overturned. The Supreme Court declined without comment on Monday to hear Kosilek’s final challenge.
Kosilek is serving a life sentence with no possibility of parole.