taxpayers. a procedure like this can cost up to $100,000. take a look at the inmate that we're talking about here. michelle norsworthy her birth name is jeffrey brian norsworthy, she went to missen in 1987 as a man and after being convicted of second-degree murder. then in the '90s norsworthy started living as a woman. she's receiving counseling and mental health treatment and hormone therapy for 15 years all on the taxpayers' dime. but now a u.s. district court ruled that she has a medical condition where one has a conflict between their sex at birth and theirxpressed gender. the judge ruling that denying the sex change operation violates norsworthy constitutional rights. >> if there is a serious medical need and the government shows deliberate indifference to that need, then it violates his eighth amendment rights against cruel and inhuman treatment. in this instance it's akin to e-cell