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California is helping prison inmates cope with their stints, having forked over more than $4 million of taxpayer funds on surgical sex changes and cosmetic "gender-affirming" enhancements for 157 inmates, including four who are on death row, the Washington Free Beacon reports.

Dallas Rachael Goosen (left), Makayla Fennell and Jazzie Paradize Scott ride bikes in the prison gym at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville on June 11, 2019. (Sruti Mamidanna/KQED)

Breaking it down, the state has coughed up:

• Over $4 million for vaginoplasties

• $180,000 for breast implants

• $184,141 on facial feminization surgeries

• $224,000 on laser hair removal

• The state has spent over $1 million removing the breasts of female prisoners

"People who think they're transgender have rights, and they should be treated with dignity and respect, but it does not include taxpayer dollars being used to do surgeries that are experimental at best and scientifically unjustified at worst," said attorney Harmeet Dhillon, who has represented California inmates.

Four people on death row have received sex reassignment surgery.

Meanwhile, corrections officials have requested nearly $2.2 million in new funds just for transgender care, according to budget documents.

The state's mandate to cover sex-change procedures for inmates stems from a 2016 legal settlement with convicted male murdere Shiloh Quine, who is serving a life sentence. Quine was represented by the George Soros-funded Transgender Law Center.

Stunning and brave, and not what Californians voted for (or is it?).