BostonHerald.com – By Laurel J. Sweet
A cross-dressing killer suing to make the state pay for his sex-change operation refuses to brush aside a federal judge’s denial of taxpayer-funded hair removal.
Robert Kosilek, 60, formerly of Mansfield – who strangled his 36-year-old wife Cheryl to death in 1990 – went back before U.S. District Court Chief Judge Mark L. Wolf yesterday, beseeching him to order the state Department of Correction to provide electrolysis treatment for his gender identity disorder. Kosilek, who now goes by the name Michelle, argues he’s a woman trapped in a man’s body.