Parolee has sex-reassignment surgery after years of battling state
A jury returned a conviction of second-degree murder, and Norsworthy was sentenced to 17 years to life in prison in 1987.
“I went to prison because I had spent my whole life denying who I was — overly male ways, carrying guns, being a tough guy,” she said in an interview last year.
In 2000, she was diagnosed as transgender by prison doctors and started receiving hormone therapy.
Prison doctors recommended sex-reassignment surgery in 2012, but officials refused, saying hormone therapy was sufficient.
In an April 2015 ruling, U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar of San Francisco said prison officials had been “deliberately indifferent to her serious medical need” and ordered the surgery.