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CHARITY
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2012
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SALE BENEFITS VISUALLY IMPAIRED
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Edna Rucoba, a sophomore from Anthony, Kan., left, and Madisen Janssen, a junior from Huntsville, Ala., volunteer Saturday, Sept. 15, at the For Your Ears Only benefit sale for Kansas Audio Reader, which provides blind, visually impaired and print-disabled people with audio recordings of newspapers, magazines and best selling books.
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DELICIOUS ANIMATION
Kaley Tesdahl, a junior from Lawrence, picked out some vinyl for her first record player, which she also found at the For Your Ears Only benefit sale.
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LAWRENC ENERGY CONSERVATION FAIR 2012
Rucoba volunteers along for Omega Phi Alpha, a service sorority. Audio Reader's services are available online and through radio broadcast in Kansas and western Missouri.
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Saturday, September 22nd
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The Lawrence Transit System will offer free rides on the T all day Saturday, September 22nd!
Featuring the Sustainable Homes Tour
Tours at 10:30am and 1:30pm • Bus tickets for the tour
available at the fair: $10 per Adult * $3 per Child under 14
Cromwell SOLAR
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HEALTH
Prisoner granted sex change
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BOSTON — A convicted murderer in Massachusetts says a judge's decision to grant her request for sex-reassignment surgery is "the right thing to do."
U. S. District Judge Mark Wolf ruled this月 month that the surgery is the only adequate treatment for Michelle Kosilek's gender-identity disorder, a condition he said is a
"serious medical need." The ruling marks the first time a judge has ordered prison officials to provide sex-reassignment surgery.
Wolf's ruling prompted an outcry among some legislative leaders, who say Kosilek is not entitled to the taxpayer-funded surgery.
Koslek said she cried tears of relief after learning of the judge's ruling. Koslek has waged a decades-long battle to complete the transformation from a man into a woman.
"This is who I am. My essence is female," Kosilek told The Associated Press in a recent telephone interview from prison.
"To those who don't understand gender-identity disorder, I understand that there is a reluctance to even think about this in a serious vein because to the average person who is uninformed, it may be truly bizarre, but this is who I am. This is who I have always been."
Kosilek was named Robert when married to Cheryl Kosilek and convicted of killing her in 1990.
She said she endured decades of pain while growing up with a boy's body but feeling like she was a girl and later fighting to get sex-reassignment surgery. She has received female hormones and lives as a woman in an all-male prison in Norfolk.
Kosilek said she first began asking for the surgery while awaiting trial in the early 1990s but was turned down by county jail officials, even after she offered to pay for it herself. She filed her first lawsuit against the state Department of Correction in 2000. Two years later, Wolf ruled that Kosilek was entitled to treatment for gender-identity disorder but stopped short of ordering surgery.
Kosilek sued again in 2005, arguing that surgery was a medical necessity.
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