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From Fox News: A federal district judge in Indiana has once again ordered the state Department of Correction (IDOC) to arrange a sex reassignment surgery for a transgender inmate convicted of reckless homicide of a baby, marking the latest development in the ongoing legal saga challenging an Indiana law banning the procedure.
The case, now in its second year, involves inmate Autumn Cordellioné’s request for sex reassignment surgery. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) first filed the lawsuit against the Indiana Department of Corrections in 2023 on behalf of Cordellioné, challenging an Indiana law that prohibits the Department of Corrections from using taxpayer funds to cover sex reassignment surgeries for inmates. The ACLU argues the law is a violation of the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition of “cruel and unusual punishment.”
“The court ordered that the Commissioner of the Indiana Department of Correction should be preliminarily enjoined to take all reasonable actions to secure Ms. Cordellioné gender-affirming surgery at the earliest opportunity,” Judge Richard Young, a Clinton appointee, wrote in a March 5 filing. “Ms. Cordellioné seeks to extend the injunction for the second time. For the reasons that follow, her motion to renew or extend preliminary injunction… is granted.”
Cordellioné, a biological male born as Jonathan Richardson, sought out another injunction as the one issued in December last year expired on March 6, the report states.
The judge’s ruling states, “In its Order granting the motion for preliminary injunction, the court acknowledged that ‘surgery may take time as it will be provided by a surgeon who is not affiliated with either IDOC or its contracted medical provider. It is therefore the court’s intention… to renew this preliminary injunction every 90 days until the surgery is provided.'”
Why is Cordellioné in prison? In 2001, he was convicted of strangling his then-wife’s 11-month-old daughter to death while she was at work, and was “calm and unemotional” when discussing the killing to police. He was sentenced to 55 years in prison for the murder.
The ACLU filed a lawsuit on Cordellioné’s behalf in 2023, claiming he was diagnosed with gender dysphoria in 2020. The lawsuit challenged Indiana law which prohibits taxpayer funds from being used to cover gender reassignment surgery, claiming it is “cruel and unusual punishment.”
The ACLU claims Cordellioné has identified as a woman since age 6, is “a woman trapped in a man’s body.” Since 2020, he has been given female hormones and testosterone blockers, along with other accommodations such as “panties, makeup, and form-fitting clothing” while incarcerated.
Now, Indiana taxpayers will get to fund his gender transition surgery.
In February 2024, Cordellioné filed another lawsuit after a prison chaplain allegedly prohibited him from wearing a hijab outside his cell.
INSANE. District Judge Richard Young has ruled that the Indiana Department of Corrections must arrange urgent “gender-affirming surgery” for the baby-murdering trans inmate Autumn Cordellioné (aka Jonathan Richardson).
Richardson, a man pretending to be a woman, is currently… pic.twitter.com/9LVaWlgGUi
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 11, 2025
Meet Jonathan C. Richardson or “Autumn Cordellioné”
He’s a prison inmate who thinks he’s a Muslim woman and just won a lawsuit forcing Indiana taxpayers to pay for his transgender genital surgery.
He’s convicted of strangling his baby stepdaughter to death.
Oh, he also sued… pic.twitter.com/v8LyUfI0e3
— Mairead Elordi (@JohnsonHildy) September 24, 2024
Trans inmate in prison for killing baby must get gender surgery at ‘earliest opportunity’: judge https://t.co/0psWQ982Td
— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 11, 2025
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