Sex-Reassignment Surgery Ban Pushed

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.

I don't understand the problem here. How is this transphobic? Why should tax payers have to pay for anyone's plastic surgery? I've always wanted washboard abs, should taxpayers be forced to pay for them? What about men that are balding? Should taxpayers be forced to pay for hair plugs? I in general do not support government run health care. I do think everyone should have access to health care, but when the federal government is paying it should only cover preventative measures (e.g. checkups) and procedures and medicine that is medically necessary to keep the patient alive and well. Gender reassignment surgery might make someone happier, but it is not necessary to keep someone alive.

Concerned about the costs to treat what taking T will do to my ovaries? Then insist that insurance cover my surgery to remove them. Robert, I don't know what trans folks you're talking to, but it is not a choice.

When it comes to the female body, those mood swings are natural and most peole develope a way to deal with that. As for stress that too can be delt with. But to compare that with Transgender is a stretch. The hormon therapy is choice- and such changes will have side effects- some are major. Its to the degree that it questions which is better- treating the depression the lack of a sex change will cause- or treating the side affects after the procedure takes place. Again, this is not something tax payers would understand- much less be willing to support. Even when it comes to the question of what is right and what is wrong its still gray. Pay thousands of tax dollars to make one person to possibly be happy, or take that money and use it to treat lukemia, cancer, and other more life threatning ailments for multiple people.