BayWindows.com – Nancy Nangeroni
Last week?s editorial in Bay Windows that lays out the facts of the Michelle Kosilek case (a trans woman imprisoned for murder who is seeking gender reassignment surgery) poses a challenge to the transgender community: What is our response to this case? As the local trans community?s leading political organization, the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition (MTPC) has discussed this troubling matter at some length. Our carefully reached consensus is that we need to make a clear statement that affirms the right of all persons, trans or otherwise ? including prisoners ? to appropriate medical treatment. At the same time we want to state emphatically that we are in no way sympathetic to those who commit horrific crimes of the sort for which Kosilek was convicted.