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Assuming it's to fix a documented and real medical condition it should be treated like any other real medical condition from an insurance and government aid standpoint.
What real medical condition does gender reassignment treat?
What real medical condition does gender reassignment treat?
Nope.
If private insurance wants to cover it? Fine.
Tax money going into it? A lot more research must be done. I could give a flying flipping mother****ing stupid ****ing **** if you want to "Feel comfortable in your skin." There better be some hardcore scientific proof before forcing people to have their tax money go into such a thing.
The DSM-5, which is the bible for the psychiatric world recognizes gender dysphoria as a legitimate medical condition.
Gender dysphoria.
I voted yes.
Where there is a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria and gender reassignment surgery is indicated as necessary treatment then the surgery should be covered by insurance or subsidized by the government in the same way that any other medically necessary treatment would be covered.
I found the same thing earlier and have been thinking about it since.
DSM-5 recognizes gender dysphoria as a mental disorder.
That's a medical condition, sure enough, and as I've said, so long as it's a legitimate medical condition I'm comfortable with government subsidizing gender reassignment surgery to the same degree that they'd subsidize any other medical treatment.
But thinking about this in conjunction with the Bruce Jenner thing, is necessary treatment for a mental disorder something that should really be celebrated?
Is a mental disorder something that should be considered "normal"?
Understand that I bear no ill will toward Jenner or anyone else suffering from gender dysphoria, whether that condition has been treated by full blown gender reassignment surgery or whether it's simply being treated as best as possible through transvestism.
But we don't "celebrate" Anorexia, or Sexual Masochism, or Alcoholism (or other Substance Use Disorders), or really any other mental disorders as defined by the DSM. And we certainly don't tell our children that these things are "okay", or "normal" or that "those people are just like you and me".
I'm wondering if maybe we should be showing transvestites the same pity and providing them with the same care that we would a heroine addict, while not necessarily considering their condition anything more than a very serious mental disorder that we're really glad we don't have.
Live next to them, work with them, share a pew in church with them, same as we would anyone else, but let's maybe not make a form a mental illness the current cause célèbre.
Gender dysphoria is a mental illness—a damaged mind.
To think that it is an appropriate treatment to damage a healthy body in order to treat a damaged mind, while doing nothing to address the damaged mind, is as insane as the condition being thus treated.
Self explanatory. Do you think the government should pay, or help pay, or subsidize insurance companies, or in any other way funnel money toward assisting people to undergo gender reassignment surgeries?
If so, to what extent?
Gender dysphoria is a mental illness—a damaged mind.
To think that it is an appropriate treatment to damage a healthy body in order to treat a damaged mind, while doing nothing to address the damaged mind, is as insane as the condition being thus treated.
Self explanatory. NO.
No I dont think tax dollars should pay for it.
Nope.
If private insurance wants to cover it? Fine.
Tax money going into it? A lot more research must be done. I could give a flying flipping mother****ing stupid ****ing **** if you want to "Feel comfortable in your skin." There better be some hardcore scientific proof before forcing people to have their tax money go into such a thing.
I found the same thing earlier and have been thinking about it since.
DSM-5 recognizes gender dysphoria as a mental disorder.
That's a medical condition, sure enough, and as I've said, so long as it's a legitimate medical condition I'm comfortable with government subsidizing gender reassignment surgery to the same degree that they'd subsidize any other medical treatment.
But thinking about this in conjunction with the Bruce Jenner thing, is necessary treatment for a mental disorder something that should really be celebrated?
Is a mental disorder something that should be considered "normal"?
Understand that I bear no ill will toward Jenner or anyone else suffering from gender dysphoria, whether that condition has been treated by full blown gender reassignment surgery or whether it's simply being treated as best as possible through transvestism.
But we don't "celebrate" Anorexia, or Sexual Masochism, or Alcoholism (or other Substance Use Disorders), or really any other mental disorders as defined by the DSM. And we certainly don't tell our children that these things are "okay", or "normal" or that "those people are just like you and me".
I'm wondering if maybe we should be showing transvestites the same pity and providing them with the same care that we would a heroine addict, while not necessarily considering their condition anything more than a very serious mental disorder that we're really glad we don't have.
Live next to them, work with them, share a pew in church with them, same as we would anyone else, but let's maybe not make a form a mental illness the current cause célèbre.
Just "No" isn't quite adequate as a response to such a question.
Stealing from everyone to pay for an elective cosmetic surgery would be unconscionable.
Government has no business being involved in this or anything like this.
How about that. I just finished saying that there's unwarranted stigma associated with mental disorders and look what happens.
Who's to say that changes to the body aren't appropriate treatment for a mental illness?
Nope.
If private insurance wants to cover it? Fine.
Tax money going into it? A lot more research must be done. I could give a flying flipping mother****ing stupid ****ing **** if you want to "Feel comfortable in your skin." There better be some hardcore scientific proof before forcing people to have their tax money go into such a thing.
The parts of the body that are being removed or mutilated were healthy before the operation. They aren't the cause of the problem, and removing or destroying them does nothing to mitigate the problem.
What real medical condition does gender reassignment treat?
Why not?
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