Last September, a federal judge ordered the Indiana Department of Correction to provide “gender‐affirming surgery” to self-purported Muslim transgender inmate Jonathan C. Richardson, who now goes by the name “Autumn Cordellionè” and is serving a 55-year sentence for killing Richardson’s infant stepdaughter.
However, no doctor in Indiana is willing to conduct such a surgery, parties to the lawsuit revealed in a status report Wednesday.
According to the status report, the Indiana DOC referred Richardson to IU Health’s Dr. Joshua Roth, but he declined to move forward with the procedure. Headline USA revealed last month that the Indiana DOC had been pressuring Dr. Roth to conduct the surgery, even though psychologist Dr. Kelsey Beers filed a report recommending against it.
This is just incredible: Indiana's prison system can't find a single doctor in the state willing to give a sex change to the baby-killing, self-purported trans Muslim inmate.
It also looks like doctors around the country are shuttering their sex-change practices.
Moreover, 15… https://t.co/bVu3YDNdOX pic.twitter.com/zMnA4nuPId— Ken Silva (@JD_Cashless) February 5, 2025
Dr. Roth was apparently the only possible option in Indiana. Wednesday’s joint status report said that the DOC had also reached out to two other surgeons who were known to provide sexual reassignment surgeries in the past—Dr. Michelle Jones Singer and Dr. Ashley Robey—but they said they no longer perform those types of surgeries.
Richardson’s attorney, Kenneth Falk, also provided DOC with a reference to Dr. Jonathan Witten, a surgeon who practices in Kentucky and Indiana—but Dr. Witten, too, said he no longer conducts sex changes. […]
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