(DC Pundit) – In a ruling that’s sure to make your blood boil, a Clinton-appointed federal judge, Richard Young, has decided that Indiana taxpayers must fund a sex change operation for an inmate who strangled an 11-month-old baby to death. Yes, you read that right—Jonathan Richardson, now strutting around as “Autumn Cordellioné,” is getting a shiny new gender courtesy of your hard-earned dollars. This is what happens when the left’s obsession with “rights” collides with common sense and leaves it in a ditch.
Richardson was convicted back in 2001 for the reckless homicide of his then-wife’s infant daughter. Fast forward to 2020, and this baby-killer decided to slap on a new identity, claiming to be a woman. Enter the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in 2023, riding in on their white horse to sue the Indiana Department of Corrections (IDOC) for a taxpayer-funded sex change.
Indiana, bless its heart, actually has a law banning these kinds of frivolous surgeries for inmates on the public dime. But Judge Young, wielding his gavel like a scepter of progressive lunacy, sided with the ACLU on March 5, 2025, declaring that denying this surgery violates the Eighth Amendment’s ban on “cruel and unusual punishment.” His order? “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.” Translation: Hurry up and give the baby-killer what he wants, stat!
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita, a rare voice of sanity in this circus, fired back: “Convicted murderers don’t get to demand that taxpayers foot the bill for expensive and controversial sex-change operations. It lacks all common sense.” You’d think that’d be the end of it, but no—Young doubled down, extending the injunction after Richardson’s lawyers whined for more time. Apparently, justice moves fast when it’s about coddling criminals.
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
Here’s where it gets even wilder: a psychologist, Kelsey Beers, evaluated Richardson and concluded he’s not even a legit candidate for this surgery. She found no real “gender dysphoria”—just a cocktail of antisocial personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, and a knack for “attention-seeking behavior.” Sounds like the perfect résumé for a prison reality show, not a taxpayer-funded makeover. But Judge Young waved off her report like it was yesterday’s news, writing, “The court finds that Dr. Beers’ report does not present a significant factual development that would cause it to reconsider its grant of injunctive relief.” Sure, Judge—why let facts get in the way of a good virtue signal?
The left is playing dress-up with murderers. Indiana’s law was a commonsense guardrail, but leave it to a Clinton relic to ram right through it. Rokita’s team is fighting back, vowing to defend the ban, and thank goodness—someone’s got to stand up for the taxpayers who’d rather not see their money fund a killer’s fantasy.
The ACLU’s argument hinges on twisting the Constitution into a pretzel, claiming it’s “cruel” to deny a murderer a surgery most Americans couldn’t even afford for themselves (if they were crazy enough to want it). Meanwhile, the rest of us are left wondering: since when did prison become a cosmetic surgery clinic?
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