S.C. attorney general fights funding for prison inmate sex changes

COLUMBIA, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson has ed a 24-state coalition filing a brief arguing that taxpayers should not have to pay for sex change operations for prison inmates.

The attorney general argues that states are responsible for the security and healthcare of prison inmates, and “they need the flexibility to do that, on a limited budget funded by taxpayers, with security concerns unique to prisons.

The brief was filed Tuesday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in a case from Indiana. In the case, a federal court blocked an Indiana law that prohibits the payment of any money or use of state resources to provide sex change surgery for an inmate.

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The court also required the state “to take all reasonable actions to secure plaintiff gender-affirming surgery at the earliest opportunity.” The attorneys general are asking the Court of Appeals to reverse that lower court ruling.

They also argue that the lower court based its ruling on standards of care from the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH) but those standards are unreliable. In fact, the brief argues that WPATH changed its recommendations based on political concerns.

The full brief can be read here.