EagleTribune.com – By Edward Mason – Staff writer
Boston – As a judge considers forcing the state to pay for a convicted murderer’s sex-change operation, Sen. Bruce Tarr, R-Gloucester, has filed legislation that would bar taxpayers from footing the bill.
“I want to put into the law something that there is fairly widespread agreement on,” Tarr said yesterday. “That this is a procedure that shouldn’t be paid for, especially when the budget is tight and the Department of Corrections is strained to perform basic functions.”
If passed, Tarr’s bill would prohibit any use of public money to pay for “sex reassignment surgery” for anyone held at any of the state’s jails or prisons.