Posted on 11/19/2016 2:59:49 AM PST by BlessedBeGod
RAMSEY COUNTY, Minnesota, November 18, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) — A Minnesota judge has ruled that taxpayers must foot the bill for "gender reassignment" surgeries for the poor.
District Court Judge William Leary decreed that a law prohibiting the use of tax funds for sex change operations was unconstitutional, essentially declaring that gender-confused persons on Medicaid have a Constitutional "right" to genital surgery.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota (ACLU) sued the state in the case of a 64-year-old woman who wants a double mastectomy in order to appear more like a man.
Evan Thomas is taking sex change drugs and receiving counseling to help her "transition" into a man. She will now have mastectomy surgery, paid for by Medicaid.
Previously, the state’s Medical Assistance and MNCare programs would not pay for elective vaginoplasty, phalloplasty, hysterectomies, and mastectomies, but would provide surgeries for legitimate medical needs.
“OutFront Minnesota is delighted by this ruling,” the homosexual activist group's legal director, Phil Duran, wrote in a statement. “And it could have broader impact on protection of transgender people in schools and other state government programs.”
In July, President Obama issued changes to ObamaCare that force state Medicaid plans to cover sex change operations, set to go into effect nationwide on January 1. Since those changes were announced, the Minnesota Department of Human Services has been preparing to implement them and supports Judge Leary's ruling.
“Th(is) district court order brings the state into compliance with (Obama's) federal rule, and ensures the department may provide this service to Minnesotans,” an agency statement read.
Thomas claimed that having the surgery was "a matter of life and death,” because "feeling you are in the wrong body can be devastating.” She admitted having serious bouts of depression and suicidal thoughts.
She explained that in puberty she felt that parts of her body didn't belong to her “as if parts of it belonged to another species.” She has been diagnosed with "gender dysphoria."
Thomas' lawsuit against the state claimed that if the 64-year-old didn't receive a double mastectomy, she would suffer "significant psychological distress."
President Obama's changes to the Affordable Care Act could be rescinded by the incoming Trump administration. The president-elect's recurring promise on the campaign trail was to "repeal and replace" ObamaCare.
Remember that our President did not want to pay for a cardiac pacemaker for the mother of the woman who questioned him, but we are to indulge a fantasy at enormous expense.
62 day, 5 hours and 45 minutes to go . . . . . .
Not our president
How about this type of countdown timer running on the page header?
“a law prohibiting the use of tax funds for sex change operations was unconstitutional”
But forcing me to pay for a freak change is? Please show me where it says in the constitution that I must pay for someone to mutilate their genitals. Thank God Hitlery lost, we’d have judges like this fool on the SCOTUS
So ... if I wanted a penis to replace each ear ... hey, how about it judge?
We are so far down the rabbit hole...
I don’t know that The Trump Tsunami will be enough to get us back to common sense and Founding principles.
Is District Court Judge William Leary mentally stable? It is not true that gender confusion is a treatable mental disorder?
Why spend taxpayer dollars on a false need for surgery? Are not mental disorders already included in health care?
“Is District Court Judge William Leary mentally stable?”
Without researching, I would bet the judge was/is a Clinton
appointee.
Minnesota is just catching up to New York. It has been covered since 2014. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/11/nyregion/in-new-york-insurance-must-cover-sex-changes-cuomo-says.html
Just wait until the Governor discovers a huge spike in the medicaid expenditures and can’t figure out how that occured.I told family members just last week that they were living in a communist state
Evidence that Democrats and leftists have disordered minds?
There is no such thing as “sex-change”, all one is doing is lopping off his d*ck.
Doctor reimbursement $1.98.
We already have judges like this fool on SCOTUS. Courtesy of Obama.
Health insurance is for health issues.
Cutyourdickoff surgery is not a health related procedure. Therefore, a poor person is not constitutionally entitled to proceeds from health insurance
Spend some of the money on mental help for these disturbed people.
To paraphrase Abe Lincoln:
If you have four females and no males and one of them has fake male genitalia sewed onto her body
how many women and males do you now have?You still have four females and no males.
Calling a female a male doesn't make her a male.
Bored people wanting ATTENTION. Tell them to GIT BIZZY
doing something worthwhile.
The stupidity of those that have some influence, knows no bounds.
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