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Frankly, if I was paying state taxes in Colorado I'd be wondering why I'm footing the bill for transgendered hormone treatments for any criminal, let alone a convicted pedophile.


Poor, poor, pitiful me

With B-cup-sized breasts, a feminine gait and long, curly hair, Christopher "Kitty" Grey causes a stir every time the inmate enters a cellblock.

But instead of reveling in the attention as he is moved from prison to prison, Grey, who is serving 16 years to life for molesting an 8-year-old girl for five years, said he cringes every time he hears the whistles and catcalls...

...The transgendered inmate said he belongs in a women's prison, but, by state policy, he can't because he has male genitalia.

Grey believes Colorado has a constitutional obligation to perform a sex-change operation on him so he can go to a women's prison. He's filed a lawsuit against the state, demanding he be given a psychologist who is a gender specialist...

...Grey has appealed to the Colorado Supreme Court. If Grey wins, the expert would undoubtedly conclude Grey must have the operation for his mental and emotional well-being, he said...

...Already, Colorado is providing Grey with 2 milligrams a day of estrace, which softens his skin, and 50 milligrams of aldactone, which suppresses testosterone and promotes breast growth.

He and 18 other transgendered inmates get the medicine or special psychological counseling. Those who get the medicine do so because they were already using it before their convictions and it would cause too much emotional upheaval in their lives if it were denied.

But prison doctors and psychologists say the next step - a sex-change operation - would be too complicated to arrange in prison. It would not only be expensive but also could endanger the inmate, they said.

Hormone treatments cost between $50 and $500 a year, said Dr. James Michaud, chief of mental health for the Colorado Department of Corrections. And a sex-change operation can cost $14,000 or more, Grey said.

"We're not in the business of providing elective care," said Dr. Cary Shames, the Department of Corrections' chief medical officer...

...In other prisons, he twice became the sexual partner of tougher inmates who protected him, saying it was only for survival's sake.

"I shouldn't have to prostitute myself to remain safe,"

You should have thought of that before you diddled a little girl, bub.



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