Convicted Transgender Killer From Mansfield Anxious About Sex Change Ruling

Former Mansfield resident Michelle Kosilek, who was convicted of killing her wife in 1990, expressed her concern about whether her tax payer-funded sex change operation will go forward in a letter to U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Juan R. Torruella, according to the Sun Chronicle. 

In the letter, she complained that it has been almost six months since the Department of Corrections argued that a 2012 lower court's ruling that denying her the surgery amounted to cruel and unusual punishment in front of Torruella and Judges Rogeriee Thompson and William Joseph Kayatta Jr., where the court typically rules in three to four months. 

Kosilek, named Robert in 1990 when she when she killed her wife Cheryl at their Mansfield condominium and left the body in a car at Emerald Square mall in North Attleboro, was convicted in 1993 and began seeking a sex change operation when she was 43. She is now 64 and serving a life sentence without chance of parole for first degree murder. 

This has been a controverial topic in Massachusetts. Do you think Kosilek should be granted a sex change? Let us know know in the comments below.