A violent sex offender has been awarded more than $2.5 million in legal fees after suing the state for withholding “gender affirming care” while he was incarcerated for sexually abusing a 15-year-old boy.
Brady Summers, who dated Edmo for two years, said that Edmo had not been living as a woman before going to prison and had always presented as a masculine gay man.
“Never once indicated anything of gender dysphoria,” Summers said, recounting his experience with Edmo, “He was a predator. He, on several occasions, had his way with me. It was brutal.”
Summers was subjected to continuous abuse by Edmo during their relationship, which had been the first Summers had ever been in after coming out.
“He would beat me on a constant basis. I had to keep my head low. I had to be careful what I said, careful what I did. And the final straw of me escaping was him beating me with a frying pan.”
Edmo did a stint in jail for the abuse, but attempted to reconcile with Summers once he was released. Not long after, Edmo sexually assaulted an underage boy at a house party. Edmo was charged with the sexual abuse of a child under the age of 16, and sentenced to 10 years in prison for the crime in 2012.
In 2019, Idaho Governor Brad Little condemned Edmo’s effort to secure his surgery while incarcerated, penning a statement to media.
“The hardworking taxpayers of Idaho should not be forced to pay for a convicted sex offender’s gender reassignment surgery when it is contrary to the medical opinions of the treating physician and multiple mental health professionals.”
The 9th Circuit Court nonetheless ruled that, despite Edmo’s doctor and two other physicians agreeing to a treatment plan which did not include surgery, the “general agreement in a medically unacceptable form of treatment does not somehow make it reasonable.”
The Court also ruled that prison officials had violated the Eighth Amendment of the US Constitution prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment by refusing Edmo’s request for surgery.
Edmo is not currently required to register as a sex offender, and social media activity from after his 2021 release from prison mention traveling across the United States to multiple destinations including Nevada and California.
Source: Child Rapist Awarded $2.5 Million in Legal Settlement Over “Gender Affirming Care” Access – Reduxx
I would be most interested to hear Anna Kerr’s opinion of where the legal profession is in regard to interpreting the laws of trans rights versus the rights of women.
As a lay person i find the decisions the magistrates make sometimes beyond my understanding.
More and more it appears the trans movement is a stalking horse for mysoginist patriachial males. And as a male this makes me very uncomfortable.
Yet to object, even in the most delicate way, has subjected me to ridicule at work (medical model mental health centre) and being cancelled on line.
Many decisions by courts, including this one, are beyond my understanding as well. I am sorry to hear you have been ridiculed and cancelled for being rational.