California has spent more than $4 million of taxpayer money on sex-change surgeries and other elective cosmetic surgeries for inmates who self-identify as the opposite sex, according to a recent report.
Beginning in 2017, the state became the first to pay for prisoners to undergo body-altering surgeries.
According to The Washington Free Beacon, California has spent around $4 million on these procedures for 157 inmates from 2017 through mid-July of this year. Four of those inmates were on death row.
California spent $2.5 million on vaginoplasties for 35 male prisoners, $180,000 on breast implants for 11 male inmates and $184,141 on facial feminization surgery for two male inmates.
In addition, 69 male inmates underwent laser hair removal for a cost of $224,000 and over $1 million was spent on elective double mastectomies for female prisoners.
This past summer, the state corrections department received 1,000 petitions from inmates looking to alter their sex…
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