New York, July 18: Convicted killer Mark Brooks is taking the state of New York to court because prison officials won't let him have a sex change operation - and he's gotten the go ahead from a judge to proceed with the suit, the New York Post reported Thursday.
Brooks also wants to be transferred to a women's prison, the paper said yesterday.
Federal judge Lawrence Kahn found the state's denial subjected Brooks, in jail for 50 years, to ''cruel and unusual punishment'' by barring him from seeing a doctor, the post said.


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