Justice Department has reportedly endorsed a taxpayer-funded procedure for inmate who sent explosives to their Washington address
The US Department of Justice has reportedly endorsed a taxpayer-funded “gender reassignment” surgery for a prison inmate charged with sending a mail bomb to the DOJ headquarters in Washington.
The prisoner, who was initially not identified in court documents, sued for a sex-change last December. The Georgia Department of Corrections sent a status report to the court on Monday, revealing that the surgery will be performed soon.
“The Gender Dysphoria Committee convened on November 1, 2024. The Committee has medically cleared Ms. [Jane] Doe for surgery and has informed the Georgia Department of Corrections that the recommended treatment plan for Ms. Doe is gender reassignment surgery,” says the document, quoted by the conservative outlet Headline USA on Wednesday.
‘Jane Doe’ is the legal pseudonym for parties that wish to remain anonymous.
Headline USA has identified the plaintiff as David Cassady, 55, who has been serving a life sentence in a Georgia state prison since 1993 for multiple counts of “aggravated sodomy,” gang membership, and other charges.
In April this year, the DOJ charged Cassady with making two bombs and mailing them to a federal courthouse in Alaska and “a federal facility at 1400 New York Avenue NW in Washington, DC.” The latter is the DOJ headquarters in the US capital.
Cassady allegedly made the bombs in 2019-2020, while serving his sentence at the Reidsville, Georgia prison, which has since closed. He was then transferred to the Phillips State Prison in Buford.
The federal indictment charged Cassady with one count of making an unregistered destructive device, two counts of mailing a destructive device, and one count of attempted malicious use of an explosive. The defendant has pleaded not guilty.
After the charges were unsealed in April, Atlanta’s WSB-TV revealed that one of the bombs was sent to the widow of the man Cassady sexually assaulted as a teenager.
The federal trial was scheduled for December 9 but was recently postponed, with no new date scheduled. According to Headline USA, the DOJ has continued to refer to Cassady as a man in the bomb case, but as a woman in the amicus brief supporting his request for a sex change at taxpayers’ expense.
Cassady’s case appears to be based on the precedent set by Peter “Donna” Langan, a neo-Nazi bank robber who last year became the first federal inmate to receive gender-reassignment surgery at government expense.
