article_snippet: A federal judge ordered the Massachusetts Department of Correction to grant sex-reassignment surgery to Kosilek in 2012, finding that it was the 'only adequate treatment' for Kosilek's severe gender dysphoria, also known as gender-identity disorder.
article_snippet: Convicted murderer Michelle Kosilek, born Robert Kosilek, is fighting to overturn a ruling that denied her request for a sex-change surgery.
article_snippet: Before and after pictures of Kosilek as a man on the left in 1990, and living as a woman on the right in 1993 .
article_snippet: Now 65, Kosilek has fought to get sex-reassignment surgery for two decades.
article_snippet: In 2005, Kosilek sued the Department of Correction Correction again, arguing that sex-reassignment surgery was a medical necessity.
article_snippet: A three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Judge Mark Wolf's ruling, but the country appealed, citing security concerns about protecting Kosilek from sexual assaults if Kosilek completes Kosilek gender transition.
article_snippet: Kosilek is currently housed in an all-male prison, but hopes to be transferred to the country's women's prison after sex-reassignment surgery.
highlights_snippet: Doctors say Kosilek has a gender-identity disorder .
  