Sex-Reassignment Surgery Ban Pushed

Can any of these god-fearing conservative men imagine for one minute, what it would be like (and lets make this scenario really ridiculous) that they woke up one morning in a woman's body. Sure I could imagine any number of them running to the bathroom to masturbate like a crazy person but what about later when the "thrill" some accuse us of having has worn off? When it comes to having to get down to everyday life and get by? No more drinks at the bar with your buddies, no more rounds of golf on Wednesday afternoon, in fact none of what you ever enjoyed would be an option to you. Society would insist that you stay home and look after the kids, cook, clean and look pretty for your husband. Oh and sex would be unbearable as it would feel so wrong. Sound like fun? So you save like crazy to take male hormones, grow a beard and pump iron to pass as a guy again. Oops, you can't pee with your pals, take a shower, swim, have sex or much more without surgery. Looks like your SOL buddy!

Banning sex-reassignment surgeries will only make people go overseas to get them done. I myself couldn't afford 100,000$ up for my total transition, so I researched for years and found a great hospital in Bangkok, Thailand called Yanhee Hospital. My results were good, and I was able to finally have closure and peace with a body that closely matches my own self-image inside. Everyone has an inner self-image as to how they see themselves. That can't be taken away and it cannot be changed. What would have cost me well over $100,000 only cost me approximately $8,000 at Yanhee Hospital. Visit http://www.YanheeUSA.com

The APA has deemed sexual reassignment surgery medically necessary for the treatment of gender identity disorder. The government should not deny transgender and transexual people the right to medically necessary care. I don't think that anyone, private insurers or the government should be able to deny coverage of a disorder that is deemed medically necessary by the doctors, psychologists and psychiatrists who are treating it. SRS is plastic surgery, but it is not the type of plastic surgery employed by the wealthy to improve their appearance. It is the type employed by individuals who require reconstructive surgery for birth defects, accidents, and various other physical issues. The government already recognizes that SRS is a type of medical treatment because you can deduct it form your taxes. For the coverage of SRS to be missing from the gov't healthcare plan is hypocrisy and bigotry at it's zenith. GLB people should support their trans cousins who bear the brunt of the hate.

I'm for the opposite - mandatory sex change for the homophobes. Maybe that will cure what bugs them about gay people - their gender is fucked up with their body. BTW, the queerest marriage I ever heard of is the Priest is wed to the church, and even gets a wedding ring. And Jesus is the bride of the church. I guess this makes him a bottom. Like most of the hierarchy of the church -

It isn't about happiness twit, its about sexual, psychological, physical, and social comfort. I don't want to be a more beautiful or sexually appealing woman, I just want to be more of a woman.

If they have funding to change your penis to a vagina or visa versa, then will they fund a penis enlargement too if we are unhappy with our size? (not that I am if course.....)

Who would want to have their penis or boobs chopped off in order to be pretty? If that's what you would do Bobby Drake, Mr. "plastic surgery" man, then I guess that's a problem. But that isn't why transpeople do it. As for the doctor, can you give me the name of a private insurance company that covers SRS? No, I sincerely would like to know. Could you also give me the name of an organization that would cover such treatment for me granted I become poor and can't afford the insurance? No, no, I honestly would like that information.

GENDER REASSIGNMENT SURGERY IS NOT FUCKING AESTHETIC! For the love of God, some of you people are so stupid. It does save people's lives. People who get severe depression because of their fucking body's contradiction to everything they feel- sexually, psychologically, emotionally, socially, and YES, even physically. This is a psychiatric assertion. Try studying it for once. People, who (like me) struggle to get their heads around the idea of being stuck in the wrong fucking body and (like me) become a health risk by attempting suicide and(like me) end up in mental institutions where they don't belong. Someone who has Cancer or another fatal disease yes, should be treated. But shouldn't people who are physically, mentally, emotionally, sexually imbalanced be treated as well? It isn't about happiness you spoiled cysgendered twats, its about living at the basic most comfort. But you probably don't get it because you never had such a problem.

Robert. Just because tax-payers (like you) don't understand, doesn't mean that they have the right to decide. In fact, the government should have the right to decide on things that it is more informed about. Most taxes that we pay go to sectors of the government we don't even know about. Why not pay for something you know something about? Also, I believe that the money spent on curbing the suicide rate would not interfere with the money going to cure lukemia and cancer etc.. Also, mental conditions are just as correlated to the body as other hormonic conditions. Don't you think the chemical imbalance caused by severe depression is just as dangerous (if not more dangerous) than a natural hormone imbalance? Also, Intersex people who undergo hormone therapy have the same risks as people with gender dysphoria do on undergoing hormone therapy. Give me examples of people who took hormone treatment in the 80's and 90's and are now unhealthy or dead.

Leave the government out of health care decisions. I am a physician, and I made these decisions. If you want to make these decisions, then you go to medical school.