Should prisons have to provide hormones to transsexual prisoners at tax payer expense?

Let's change your wording a little:

Should prisons have to provide heart medication to prisoners at tax payer expense?

Should prisons have to provide cancer medication to prisoners at tax payer expense?

Either of those costs many times more than hormones do, the number of prisoners with heart conditions and cancer is an order of magnitude higher and yet I have never heard anyone moaning and dripping about the price of those medications. If you were truly concerned about the costs of medications you'd be going after them. But that's not your issue, is it? You're just another transphobe.

If you live in the United States maybe the real question you should be asking is whether a criminals healthcare should be funded at all when the honest working citizen has to pay for their own healthcare out of pocket?

As for you comparing transsexualism to plastic surgery, you are wrong. It is a medical treatment for Gender Dysphoria, a condition that causing depression and anxiety amongst other things due to a misalignment in gender and sex. So far only medical transition has proved to ease the symptoms of Gender Dysphoria.

You then in your comment to Jessica's question mentioned Gender Dysphoria isn't life threatening. Lets expand this to the stigma given to mental health in general, we can't see it so it mustn't be there. Yet the attempted suicide rate of transgender people exceeds 40% of the US population. Shockingly in the UK where gender reassignment is funded on the state regardless of you status as a criminal or an honest working taxpayer, the rate is 48% which compared to the general population is extremely high.

Plus also finally, should we only treat things on the basis of them being life threatening? I mean a guy could have a broken leg, but it my not be life threatening so should they be refused treatment.

Fact is the US has made a choice to fund the medical treatment of its prisoners which given honest working taxpayers don't get the same courtesy I feel is wrong, but once that commitment has been made all medical conditions should be treated regardless of severity and I have to point out Gender Dysphoria is a medical condition.

Well Canada already dose that in general from what i have heard, i wouldn't be surprised if they did though i am not exactly sure about other countries.... dose Canada even have jail? it seems like a pretty useless idea around there, anyway the point is some nations might actually do it as apart of the customs though if they should or shouldn't seems like a rather personal debate not suited for *yahoo!* answers, more like a debate one would have with friends and sorts.

Yes. All medical matters should be government-provided. Prisoners or not.

Of course not. Taxpayers should be responsible only for minim treatments necessary to keep patients from being in life-threatening condition.

Prison is supposed to be a deterrent, not a country club with free health care of your choosing.