Posted on 05/16/2008 4:45:14 PM PDT by wagglebee
TORONTO, Ontario, May 16, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Ontario’s health insurance plan will pay for “sex-change” operations for the first time in a decade, Health Minister George Smitherman confirmed yesterday
"(It would) probably affect between eight and 10 people in Ontario, who after having very, very sustained psychological evaluations would be deemed by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health as appropriate candidates to receive a surgical intervention," Smitherman speculated.
Ontario began covering the bill for “sex-change” operations in 1971, but ceased doing so in 1998 under the Progressive Conservative government.
In 2006, the Ontario Human Rights Commission required compensation for three patients midway through preparation for sex-change surgery during the 1998 insurance plan change.
The Centre Metropolitain de Chirurgie Plastique, a private hospital in Montreal, has already been offering “sex-change” procedures to patients for $17 thousand.
The Health Minister added yesterday that he would give more details about funding for “sex-change” operations in a few weeks when discussing funding plans for the province’s health-care services.
Smitherman, appointed Health Minister in 2003 by Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty, is an openly active homosexual, infamous for advancing sexually permissive social policies.
While many psychiatrists have promoted “sex-change” operations based upon the notion that “gender” is a cultural construct distinct from one’s genetically determined sex, other prominent psychiatrists have rejected the prudence of so-called “sex-change” operations.
After he became Psychiatrist-in-Chief at Johns Hopkins University, Paul McHugh found that “sex-change” operations failed to solve patients’ difficulties with relationships, work, or emotions.
In his First Things article, “Surgical Sex,” McHugh recounts finding the “transgendered” participants in “sex-change” operations unpersuasive evidence for the surgery’s effectiveness.
“The post-surgical subjects struck me as caricatures of women. They wore high heels, copious makeup, and flamboyant clothing; they spoke about how they found themselves able to give vent to their natural inclinations for peace, domesticity, and gentleness--but their large hands, prominent Adam's apples, and thick facial features were incongruous (and would become more so as they aged).”
“Women psychiatrists whom I sent to talk with them would intuitively see through the disguise and the exaggerated postures. ‘Gals know gals,’ one said to me, ‘and that's a guy.’”
Following his extensive research into the “sex-change” phenomena, McHugh ended “sex-change” operations at John Hopkins and has encouraged other facilities to do the same.
“I concluded that Hopkins was fundamentally cooperating with a mental illness. We psychiatrists, I thought, would do better to concentrate on trying to fix their minds and not their genitalia.”
See related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Openly Homosexual Ontario Health Minister Seeking to Become a “Dad”
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/jan/06010502.html
Read Dr. McHugh’s article:
http://www.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=398
Learn more about the “sex-change” phenomena:
http://www.narth.com/docs/desiresch.html
To politely express your concern to the Health Minister:
Queen's Park
Ministry of Health & Long-Term Care
Hepburn Block, 10th Floor, 80 Grosvenor Street
Toronto, ON, M7A 2C4
Tel: 416-327-4300
Fax: 416-326-1571
Or
Community Action Centre
514 Parliament Street
Toronto, ON
M4X 1P4
Tel: 416-972-7683
Fax: 416-972-7686
TTY: 416-972-972-9674
Email: gsmitherman.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org
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How tolerant, diverse and inclusive of them!
The lunatics are running the asylum.
It always amazes me that men can't recognize another man in drag, when it's so obvious to us women.
We are what we are. These guys want to pretend they're women, when they don't really even recognize what a woman is. They're poor caricatures of people, much less women.
What an ignorant, hateful statement! My sister mutilated her body and had both of her breasts removed. Should she have to pay for it? You should think before you spout such idiocy.
Just about all of us know at least one woman who has had one or more breasts removed due to cancer. This IS NOT mutilation, this is life saving surgery.
I'm somewhat shocked to be called "ignorant and hateful" because you cannot distinguish between a sex change operation and cancer surgery.
You should chose your words more carefully and please stay away from me.
More ignorance. Have you ever heard of insurance? Do you know why people have insurance. Could you afford to deal with breast cancer on your own. If so, congratulations. Some of us can’t and we have insurance. What’s the matter with you, that you don’t understand that.
Is this a threat? YOU posted to me, it IS NOT my fault that you cannot differentiate between sex change operations and cancer.
OMG! What a freakish viewpoint! There is a difference between cancer and a sex change operation. Wow! What a freak!
Is it my fault that you can't distinguish between a request and a threat?
Your comment is patronizing and a defensive remark to excuse yourself from issuing a simple apology. And thanks for honoring my request.
OMG nobody said there wasn’t. Read the thread and stop feigning shock.
Wagglebee started this thread. You came here after him. Why should he have to leave the thread that he started? So you can take over? LOL
Thanx everyone for your understanding and sensitivity. I didn’t mean to interrupt your bash, you dredged up some very painful experiences and don’t have the intellect to understand what you did.
Please tell me that’s sarcasm. Given the article, I don’t see how one could think breast cancer patients were being discussed
Nobody asked him to leave the thread. Again read and pay attention. Goodbye. Make up somebody else’s words.
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