Why on earth are we paying for this!!!
It is one thing to advocate for health care for transgenders.
Who can argue against health care for everyone, whatever their gender identity is?
For what at least some doctors consider to be "transgender health care",
consider a post summarizing what a doctor, @queersurgeon, said about what he actually does:
https://open.substack.com/pub/benappel/p/this-is-what-theyre-doing
An excerpt from the post:
"One of the most surreal aspects of following the issue of “gender-affirming care” has been to hear
gender clinicians and surgeons so bluntly describe, often with smiles on their faces,
the harm they inflict on the bodies of gender nonconforming children and adults
...
For genital surgery, [@queersurgeon] says the greatest variation is what can be done with phalloplasty—
the construction of a neo [i.e. artificial] phallus using skin harvested from the arm, thigh, abdomen, or upper back.
...
Then there is perineal masculinization, where the surgeon performs everything except a urethral lengthening—that is, phalloplasty, scrotoplasty, vaginectomy (the vaginal canal is sutured shut), burial of the clitoral tissue, et cetera."
"Video: Surgeon discusses performing gender-reaffirming surgery on youth | Daily Mail Online" https://share.google/IqUtQ4Mk4r6fKh5WL
where @queersurgeon describes some of his work.
Who pays for this?
Googling "who pays for gender reassignment surgery" yields
"Transgender surgery is primarily funded through a combination of
private health insurance,
employer-sponsored plans,
public programs like Medicare and Medicaid, and
personal out-of-pocket payments.
Many insurance providers now cover gender-affirming surgery as a medically necessary procedure,
though coverage varies significantly by state, plan type, and specific insurer."
See also
https://www.healthline.com/health/does-the-government-pay-for-gender-affirming-surgery
So if your insurance premium went up, now you know part of the reason.
posted by KHarbaugh at 13:09
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