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GOP votes to ban federally funded health care for transgenders

Its not elective treatment or elective surgery. That claim was thrown out 30 years ago.

 
These are quotes from the OP link:

"bans federally funded health care for transgender people of all ages"

Not funding "gender affirming care" is quite different from the broad brush description in the first quote above. Federally funded "health care" for transgender people has NOT been banned.
 
These are quotes from the OP link:




Not funding "gender affirming care" is quite different from the broad brush description in the first quote above. Federally funded "health care" for transgender people has NOT been banned.
The gender affirming care they need would be banned, so stop trying to be intellectually evasive.
 
I'm glad about this change!
 
I'm glad about this change!
What is good about denying necessary medical care for a minority? Can we in the spirit of the Golden Rule equally deny needed medical care for you and your family?
 
Men should stay out of women's restrooms and locker rooms and tax payers shouldn't pay for customer surgery and other physical alterations.
 
What is good about denying necessary medical care for a minority? Can we in the spirit of the Golden Rule equally deny needed medical care for you and your family?

Well, there are midterm elections next year. Maybe Dems should promise they'll work to restore government paid gender surgeries and make sure those fall under "essential health benefits". Is that a good idea in your opinion?
 
Convince your insurance provider.
This is not determined on a case by case basis.
 




It's in the main a plastic surgery like any other plastic surgery. Should the government pay for it if one does not like one's looks; and one is suicidal if said looks are not altered?
 
It's in the main a plastic surgery like any other plastic surgery. Should the government pay for it if one does not like one's looks; and one is suicidal if said looks are not altered?
I vote no.
 
This is not determined on a case by case basis.
So you convince your insurance company like I said
I would argue there's no such thing as transgender healthcare it's just the same healthcare you provide everyone else if you what plastic surgery and hormone treatment figure out how to get it I don't know why that should be the burden of everyone else to pay for.
 
I agree. There are enough serious medical problems in this world that need operations to restore health & healing without paying for operations for people who are not content with the bodies they were born with.
 
I agree. There are enough serious medical problems in this world that need operations to restore health & healing without paying for operations for people who are not content with the bodies they were born with.
If you all-knowing and all-powerful god didn't like transgender people then why does she make so many of them?


Your job is not to judge them but instead to love them as you love yourself or you love Jesus. Your Bible says so. Matt 19:12
 
If you all-knowing and all-powerful god didn't like transgender people then why does she make so many of them?
I don't don't think God doesn't like to transgender people. Like everything else I think it's a test of compassion.

Having compassion for someone suffering from gender destroyed one thing paying for the plastic surgery is something else completely.
Your job is not to judge them but instead to love them as you love yourself or you love Jesus. Your Bible says so. Matt 19:12
Well I don't judge I've never said something to the effect that translucent I don't have that ability to know that. In the same breath I could be coming to home for all of my various sins so I'm in the same boat with trans people and everyone else.

Seeing men who identifies women are not actually women it's not judgment in the sense that the Bible means it. Judgment with regard to the Bible is telling me people were going to hell for something. I won't say that about anybody because the stick I use to measure others would used to measure me.

I know some Christians that are transgender.
 
Trans genders need mental health care to help them deal with their delusions, not free cosmetic surgery. If they want cosmetic surgery, they have to pay for it like everyone else does.
 
MAGA is all in on controlling sexuality. No constitutional right for women to control their own bodies. No medical support for transgenders.
Cosmetic surgery is elective. If you want tax payers to fund cosmetic surgeries for the delusional, then I want you to fund my lasik surgery.
 
It’s elective plastic surgery.
 
This decision is purely politically vindictive because none of this care is medically questionable in effectiveness.
It isn’t medical care. It’s cosmetic surgery.
 
Treating gender dysphoria medically with effective transition care obviously saves lives.
You cannot support this claim.
 
The gender affirming care they need would be banned, so stop trying to be intellectually evasive.
it isn’t needed. It’s purely cosmetic.