article_snippet: Lawyers for a transgender inmate convicted of murder asked the Supreme Court Monday to overturn a ruling denying Kosilek request for sex-reassignment surgery.
article_snippet: a ruling denying her request for sex-reassignment surgery was overturned in December by the Supreme Court.
article_snippet: Lawyers with Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders told The Associated Press Lawyers with Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders asked the Supreme Court to grant a hearing or to reverse a ruling denying her request for sex-reassignment surgery.
article_snippet: Lawyers with Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders argue that the Supreme Court did not find 'clear error' in the judge's ruling granting sex-reassignment surgery and therefore had no legal basis to overturn sex-reassignment surgery.
article_snippet: In 2012, Judge Mark Wolf became the first judge in the country to order sex-reassignment surgery as a remedy for an inmate's gender-identity disorder.
article_snippet: Courts in other states have ordered hormone treatments, psychotherapy and other treatments, but not surgery.
article_snippet: Kosilek's lawyers role is to defer to the trial judge on issues of fact,' said Jennifer Levi, director of the Transgender Rights Project of GLAD, the Boston-based legal group that brought the lawsuit that led to Massachusetts becoming the first state in the country to legalize gay marriage. '
highlights_snippet: In 2012, a federal judge ordered the Massachusetts Dept of Corrections to carry out sex-change surgery but that ruling was overturned on appeal .
  