Dillon
Shadle, 23, identifies as a woman and has legally changed his name to
Riley Nicole Shadle but is still listed as male by Nebraska's Department
of Corrections.
He
filed a lawsuit against the prisons system's deputy director of health
services Randy Kohl for not providing hormone therapy ahead of gender
reassignment surgery, which Shadle wants as he claims he is less likely
to abuse more children if he is a woman.
He
also admitted he could not afford a sex change before he was jailed but
can now his medical bills are picked up by the taxpayer.
Shadle
was jailed for 37 to 66 years in June for first-degree sexual assault
of a three-year-old, possession of a child porn and two counts of visual
depictions exploiting children.
He
was originally charged with three counts of first-degree sexual assault
of a child, 31 counts of visual depictions exploiting children and 27
counts of possession of child pornography, but all but four of these
were dropped as part of a plea deal.
The
sex offender, who is detained at Lincoln Correctional Center, said he
was denied treatment 'without regard to my mental and emotional pain and
anguish and .treatment needed
He also wrote in the lawsuit that he would be less likely to re-offend when released if he was a woman, the Lincoln Journal Star reported.
Shadle
said he could not afford treatment before he was jailed for sexually
assaulting a toddler, 'but I have time now, and have medical paid for
while I'm here'.
Shadle, who is being held at Lincoln
Correctional Center (pictured), says he will be less likely to abuse
children when he is eventually released if he is a woman
Citing
his Eighth Amendment rights, Shadle wrote: 'The pain is constantly
having to feel uncomfortable in a body that doesn't match who I really
am inside.
'It
is painful to wake up every day and not only having the wrong sexual
parts that don't belong, but having to hide my true self from
everybody.'
Shadle has threatened to castrate himself if he is not given hormone therapy and gender reassignments surgery, Omaha.com reported.
