Episode #13112 - Hot Off The Presses: PENIS BE GONE!
Dillwyn, Virginia (The Weekly Vice) - Ophelia De'lonta, a 50-year-old Virginia prison inmate is suing the federal government for a sex-change operation after she failed at several attempts to castrate herself with a used razor.
According to the Virginia Department of Corrections, in October 2010, De'lonta, who was born a man and is in a male prison,became angry because a guard referred to her as a man. She then attempted to cut her penis off with a Bic razor using knowledge gained from mail-order anatomy books. She tried for three hours before passing out. It took 21 stitches to repair the damage to her penis.
Investigators say De'lonta stated that she developed a gender identity disorder at the age of 12, when the castration attempts began.
She dreamed of a sex change operation and by the age of 17, she says she began robbing banks in order to raise money for the operation. When she was 18, she was sentenced to more than 70 years in prison after she was convicted on robbery, drug and weapons charges. In 2004, De'lonta won a court case that required the state to furnish hormone treatment. Since then she has developed breasts. It was also ordered that the entire staff at the prison refer to her as a female and provide feminine hygiene products to her.
On Friday, De'lonta filed a federal lawsuit in attempt to get the state to fund a full sex-change operation in order for her to overcome her disorder. She stated that if she does not win this case, she will continue with her castration attempts. As strange as this case may seem, at least 12 other inmates in Idaho, Wisconsin, Massachusetts, New York, Virginia, Oregon, Kentucky and North Carolina have castrated themselves over the past 14 years, and several others have tried, according to psychiatry professor George R. Brown at East Tennessee State University. Dozens of other inmates nationwide have won the right to hormones and psychotherapy.
She dreamed of a sex change operation and by the age of 17, she says she began robbing banks in order to raise money for the operation. When she was 18, she was sentenced to more than 70 years in prison after she was convicted on robbery, drug and weapons charges. In 2004, De'lonta won a court case that required the state to furnish hormone treatment. Since then she has developed breasts. It was also ordered that the entire staff at the prison refer to her as a female and provide feminine hygiene products to her.
On Friday, De'lonta filed a federal lawsuit in attempt to get the state to fund a full sex-change operation in order for her to overcome her disorder. She stated that if she does not win this case, she will continue with her castration attempts. As strange as this case may seem, at least 12 other inmates in Idaho, Wisconsin, Massachusetts, New York, Virginia, Oregon, Kentucky and North Carolina have castrated themselves over the past 14 years, and several others have tried, according to psychiatry professor George R. Brown at East Tennessee State University. Dozens of other inmates nationwide have won the right to hormones and psychotherapy.
Okay, I feel for her as she does have an identity problem, but the tax payers should not have to pay for her operation.
Now THIS burns my ass:
"When she was 18, she was sentenced to more than 70 years in prison after she was convicted on robbery, drug and weapons charges."
Now I don't know exactly what she did, and I am all for being tough on crime, but that is a long ass time! If she was white I KNOW she would not have gotten that much time.
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Wow...it's crazy, but gender identity disorder is a motherfucker, and many people end up offing themselves because of the pain and frustration.
70 years for robbery and drugs charges? smhhh
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This story pisses me the hell off. If you are a responsible citizen and have the financial backing to change yourself to identify with your gender, that's grand. But I'll be damned if I have to pay for an irresponsible, harmful person in our society to have something ELECTIVE not NECESSARY done. I don't care how bad she wants it done or how much she will harm herself to have it. If it is not necessary to maintain life, then she doesn't need it. Fuck her for thinking she can use the society she tried to fuck over with her crime.
Oh, and I think 70 years for robbery, drug and weapons charges is reasonable because it is a VIOLENT crime or does she have to kill somebody first?! I know that punishments are not fair across the board and will never be, but I'm all for keeping monsters where they belong...out of our streets.
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I hear you. I am wayyyyy far to the right when it comes to punishing criminals. I just think the courts are more lenient on whites. I also think she might have gotten mental health care instead of jail time if she were a person whose family had money for a better lawyer.
You are correct, she does not need this operation to live. I am sure she was desperate at the time as they did not have the support and resources we have today for gender reassignment. Not an excuse to hurt random people Like I said b4, tax payers should not have to pay for her surgery.
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I'm still hung up on the Bic razor part...you can't even use that shyt to shave your face decently,let alone...!
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Meee tooo... and I nearly pass out when I get a damn paper cut.. I can't see laying in bed slicing off a tit with a razor.
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In other news, she makes a decent looking female.
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i wanna ass...so i guess i should commit a crime, get in jail and have them pay for it right?
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Criminals in this country have waaaaaay too many rights. On second thought she should find a way to get her ass to Cuba, the govt there pays for a certain amount of sex changes per year...
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The state must help this man-wo! Her penis is causing him mental anguish and must be removed at once!!!
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so this is were my f*ing tax money is going SMH
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