{"id":1582,"date":"2019-07-15T14:11:54","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T19:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/?p=1582"},"modified":"2019-07-15T14:12:51","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T19:12:51","slug":"the-appeal-the-struggle-to-be-trans-in-minnesotas-sex-offender-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/2019\/07\/15\/the-appeal-the-struggle-to-be-trans-in-minnesotas-sex-offender-program\/","title":{"rendered":"[The Appeal] &#8212; The Struggle to Be Trans in Minnesota\u2019s Sex Offender Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"introduction-wrapper\">\n<p>By Sessi Blanchard | July 15th, 2019<\/p>\n<p>On July 7, 2018, Kendra Michelle Lovejoy did to herself what no one else would: surgery. Wielding a disposable razor, she made incisions into her testicles. She was rushed to the hospital where physicians performed reparative surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2015, Lovejoy has lived in the Minnesota Sex Offender Program (MSOP) facility at Moose Lake, where she is confined indefinitely on a civil commitment order. (The program operates a second facility in St. Peter.) Civil commitment is a form of post-incarceration confinement for people with sex offense records who have been determined\u00a0by a district court judge to have a \u201csexual psychopathic personality\u201d or be a \u201csexually dangerous person\u201d in need of psychiatric treatment.<\/p>\n<p>While committed, Lovejoy has attempted gender-affirming self-surgery, as she calls it, eight separate times, she told The Appeal in a letter. After her latest attempt, Lovejoy told the staff that she intended to continue performing the surgery until she receives the medical care appropriate for someone who is experiencing gender dysphoria, like she is as a transgender woman.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of providing her with the treatment considered medically necessary by the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH), an organization that promotes evidence-based transgender healthcare, two MSOP clinicians issued Lovejoy an individualized program plan aimed at \u201caddress[ing] client\u2019s treatment-interfering behavior.\u201d Although the plan advises Lovejoy to \u201cwork on the deeper issues behind the behaviors,\u201d it makes no mention of gender dysphoria or any other issues related to Lovejoy\u2019s transgender identity. Instead, the plan places her surgery attempts in the context of her \u201cpattern of disruptive behaviors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read at <a href=\"\/\/theappeal.org\/transgender-women-minnesotas-sex-offender-program\/\u201d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"&quot;noopener noopener noreferrer\">The Appeal<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/2017\/07\/20\/karsjens-v-piper\/\u201d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><i>Karsjens v. Piper<\/i><\/em>\u00a0case page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sessi Blanchard | July 15th, 2019 On July 7, 2018, Kendra Michelle Lovejoy did to herself what no one else would: surgery. Wielding a disposable razor, she made incisions into her testicles. She was rushed to the hospital where physicians performed reparative surgery. Since 2015, Lovejoy has lived in the Minnesota Sex Offender Program &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/2019\/07\/15\/the-appeal-the-struggle-to-be-trans-in-minnesotas-sex-offender-program\/\" class=\"more-link\">[The Appeal] &#8212; The Struggle to Be Trans in Minnesota\u2019s Sex Offender Program<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":836,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-civil-commitment-news","7":"category-notes","8":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/836"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}