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KOSILEK v. MALONEY

No. CIV.A.92-12820-MLW.

221 F.Supp.2d 156 (2002)

Michelle KOSILEK, Plaintiff, v. Michael T. MALONEY, Defendant.

United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.

August 28, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michelle Kosilek, M.C.I. Norfolk, Norfolk, MA, pro se.

Jeffrey Jackson Pyle, Hill & Barlow, P.C., Frances S. Cohen, Jennifer L. Chiasson, Hill & Barlow, Boston, MA, for plaintiff.

Michael Franco, Law Offices of Beauregard & Burke, Philip N. Beauregard, Beauregard & Burke, New Bedford, MA, Alyson R. Ross, Borders & Ross, New Bedford, MA, Beverly R. Roby, Attorney General's Office, Richard C. McFarland, Department of Correction, Legal Division, Mary C. Firo-Barteryan, Department of Correction, Legal Division, Boston, MA, Herbert C. Hanson, Department of Correction, Boston, MA, for Defendants.

OPINION

WOLF, District Judge.

I. SUMMARY

Plaintiff Michelle Kosilek is serving a life sentence, without the possibility of parole, for murdering his wife. Kosilek is also suffering from a severe form of a rare, medically recognized, major mental illness — gender identity disorder ("GID"). Kosilek is a transsexual. Since at least age three, Kosilek has believed that he is actually a female who has been cruelly trapped in a male's body.

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