Question by Lynn: Do you think tax money should pay for sex reassignment surgeries?
Here in Sweden taxes pay for sex reassignment surgery, that does not include breast or hormones. I don’t think it seems so bad. I mean it has to be approved from the government and a psychiatrist beforehand and it’s not that many people who does it (at most a couple of dozens a year in Sweden).
So should we pay for boob jobs for people who think they have too small boobs as well? We do when you’ve had a mastectomy (possibly different in your country). We also pay for plastic surgery for burn victims.
But can we really compare getting a sex change with either; people who have been through something so horrible and have become burn victims or something so shallow as a boob jobs?
I kind of confused. What do you think about it?
(If you are for it sign petition here for America > https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/provide-financial-coverage-sex-reassignment-surgeries-transgender-americans/SXvgvYhv )
Best answer:
Answer by sapphire
No. We already have a spending problem and a debt problem. There are people in america who are starving, have no home and only the clothes on their backs. Food, Shelter, Clothing first.
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No.
Sounds like a real stretch to me. Everyone has problems. I’d like butt implants but don’t expect the government to pay for them.
for me it’s a no.. It’s their personal issues… And the government should focus on the things that matters more..
I’m not against transexualism but government spending for those.. Something that shouldn’t be approved..
Yes, my female to male gender reassignment was paid for by the state. Operation was called Adadictomy.
At some point if your insurance carrier is paying, I guess we can’t stop it. If it’s my tax dollars for the surgery, NO! The GREAT AND POWERFUL OBAMA has spent the next 3 generations into poverty!
You said: “But can we really compare getting a sex change with either; people who have been through something so horrible and have become burn victims or something so shallow as a boob jobs?”
You have no idea what you’re talking about. Transsexualism is a scientifically proven congenital birth condition, not a choice. And like anyone else with a birth condition transsexual people have a right to correct theirs. If a person lives in a country with national healthcare, YES, the government should pay for their transition (aka “sex change”). Get a clue, transition isn’t something done on a whim or overnight. It is a long, medically monitored process that takes years to accomplish.
Read this, maybe it’ll help you understand:
http://forum.beginninglifeforums.com/index.php/t/8128/9c526269471de0b08b85ff4f9681a5e6/
The cost of treatment is more than offset by having a living, productive citizen, versus a dead one, or someone that requires a lifetime of therapy and medication. In the bad old days, before transition became more widely available, 50% of transsexual people would commit suicide. Think about that before you say treatment isn’t worth it.
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Reassignment surgery is not a cosmetic surgery, it doesn’t alter a perceived imperfection in that respect. Transmen and women don’t want surgery for the sake of vanity, it’s a necessity to repair a fault. That’s my interpretation.
There’s no comparison between a vain woman who just wants bigger boobs and a transman or woman who doesn’t feel like a complete person without surgery.
Personally, I think a bigger issue (no pun intended) is supersized people demanding surgery to help them lose weight. They got themselves into that mess, surgery shouldn’t be seen as a quick-fix solution for their greed.
Even without the government surgeons tightly police their patients by having them follow a standardized standard of care, anyone seeking this without transsexualism being the cause will be weeded out. The condition is real, and this is the only treatment proven to be effective and as such the patient should receive treatment like anyone else. What you haven’t talked about is the long term cost of no treatment, to the patient, often public services of some sort and the insurance companies usually for the life of the person, do that math.
If it is considered medically necessary, yes. I know a woman who had breast reduction because she was HUGE and could not even sleep lying on her back. I do not think anyone should get implants unless they had a mastectomy, because there are risks with implants.
I don’t know how it would feel to wake up and see a man in my mirror, so I cannot judge, but I do not think I would like it.