Wednesday 22 June 2022 12:20 AM Trans ex-neo-Nazi robber to get fast-tracked 'gender surgeries' from the Bureau ... trends now
Donna Langan, born Peter, (pictured) was convicted in 1997 to life in prison for robbing two banks. She demanded the government help provide her gender confirmation surgeries
The U.S. Bureau of Prisons has fast-tracked 'gender confirmation surgeries' for a transgeder ex-neo-Nazi serving life in prison for two violent robberies after she filed a lawsuit against them for delaying her request.
Donna Langan, born Peter, 63, was part of the Aryan Republican Army (ARA), a neo-Nazi group, and was convicted in 1997 to life in prison with an additional 35 years for two bank robberies where she used firearms and explosives, Fox News reported.
Langan, who identifies as female, spent two decades in a male prison before being transferred to the Carswell Federal Medical Center women's prison, in Fort Worth, Texas.
In September 2021, Langan filed a complaint against the Bureau of Prisons (BOP), claiming she 'experiences debilitating anguish as a result of severe and inadequately treated gender dysphoria.'
The BOP said in a joint report on Friday that Langan's request will finally be fulfilled 'quickly,' without the need to settle things in court.
'Plaintiffs concur that the actions of the government appear to show that the surgery is on track, and will not be postponed excessively, or artificially delayed,' the report states.
'In light of the steps [BOP has] taken towards providing surgeries to Plaintiff, the parties believe there is a possibility that all claims in this case might be resolved without the need for further litigation.'
The Republican Aryan Army carried out 22 robberies between 1994 and 1996, with Langan as the co-founder. Pictured: (top row L-R) Scott Stedeford, Donna Langan, and Mark Thomas; (bottom row L-R) Michael Brescia, Richard Guthrie Jr., and Kevin McCarthy
After serving about 20 years in prison, Langan was transfered to the Carswell Federal Medical Center women's prison (pictured), in Fort Worth, Texas, where she claimed to suffer discrimination and gender dysphoria as she pleaded last year to be allowed surgery
Langan, who had a surgery consultation on June 10, has said she knew 'she had been misidentified as a boy' by the time she was four, and that her 'entire life has been shaped by the agonizing tension between the immutability of her gender identity and the often life-or-death danger of publicly living her truth,' according to the 2021 complaint.
'To alleviate this suffering, and the other harms and risks of harm she faces as a result of sex-based discrimination, she has for decades sought, and now seeks via this complaint, gender confirming surgeries (hereinafter 'GCS'), most urgently vaginoplasty,' the filing stated.
Langan has also claimed that she has changed since her conviction in the late 90s and no longer holds her racist beliefs.
She was the co-founder of the Aryan Republican Army, which conducted 22 bank robberies across America reminiscent of the 1991 film, Point Break, where the gang donned masks of former presidents during their raids, Dallas Morning News reported.
Langan, known as Commander Pedro, gained infamy not only for the brazen heists, but also for spreading
