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Iowa Supreme Court rules state's Medicaid program must cover sex reassignment surgery
The Hill ^ | March 8, 2019 | Jessie Hellmann

Posted on 03/08/2019 10:56:35 AM PST by jazusamo

The Iowa Supreme Court ruled that the state's Medicaid program must cover sex reassignment surgery for transgender people.

The court ruled Friday that the Iowa Department of Human Services discriminated against two women by denying their Medicaid claims for transition-related care.

“The ruling means that many transgender Iowans will be able to obtain life-saving medical care that they were unable to get in the past," said John Knight with the American Civil Liberties Union, which represented the women.

The state argued that transition-related surgeries were not covered by Medicaid because they were "cosmetic, reconstructive or plastic surgery." It specifically banned "surgeries for the purpose of sex reassignment."

The decision upheld a lower court's ruling that the state's policy went against the state's civil rights act, which protects against gender-identity discrimination.

But the ACLU argued that the womens' medical providers determined the surgeries were medically necessary to treat their gender dysphoria.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: aclu; homosexualagenda; iowasupremecourt; medicaid; mentaldisorder; reassignmentsurgery; repealthe19th; trannies; transgenders
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Pathetic.
1 posted on 03/08/2019 10:56:35 AM PST by jazusamo
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To: jazusamo

There is nothing “life-saving” about genital mutilation.


2 posted on 03/08/2019 10:58:01 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: jazusamo

Another punch in the face of every American by the tyrants in black robes. Don’t you just love it?


3 posted on 03/08/2019 10:58:44 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: jazusamo

Just checked Iowa’s 200 page budget for 2019.

Guess $1.3 bil in HHS spending ain’t enough.


4 posted on 03/08/2019 11:00:23 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: jazusamo

Its called elective surgery.
There is no right to tattoos, or cutting off your whatever.


5 posted on 03/08/2019 11:01:52 AM PST by Zathras
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To: Lurkinanloomin

That struck me too. Nobody is denying life saving medical care to transsexuals or anyone else.

This sort of lawsuit is absurd , yet in this liberal world , liberal judges think bodily mutilation is life saving.


6 posted on 03/08/2019 11:02:33 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: jazusamo

Appeal


7 posted on 03/08/2019 11:02:45 AM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: jazusamo

Based on the suicide rates of post-op trans, I would think denying them would be more life-saving.


8 posted on 03/08/2019 11:04:19 AM PST by T. P. Pole
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To: jazusamo
many transgender Iowans will be able to obtain life-saving medical care

Cutting one's healthy wee-wee off is "life-saving"? Nose jobs, too, I guess.

9 posted on 03/08/2019 11:05:05 AM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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Can’t they appeal this preposterous decision?


10 posted on 03/08/2019 11:06:59 AM PST by BipolarBob (Dad, Send lawyers, guns and money.)
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To: NobleFree

“Like, if I don’t get it... I’ll just die!”


11 posted on 03/08/2019 11:07:39 AM PST by Ingtar
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To: jazusamo

American Taxpayer getting Screwed Again.


12 posted on 03/08/2019 11:07:44 AM PST by carmen2017
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To: Zathras

I never thought of that.

I could have thought up some kind of illness to sue the government for to cover the cost of my tattoo :)

Why do people with different bodily dysmorphias have to go to South America to get their legs or arms amputated?


13 posted on 03/08/2019 11:07:45 AM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: jazusamo

Sooner or later (hopefully sooner), we’re going to have to tell the courts to blow it out their Obamaholes.

If a sickie wants to change its sex, let IT pay for it.


14 posted on 03/08/2019 11:07:51 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: jazusamo

Madness.


15 posted on 03/08/2019 11:08:55 AM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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MAGA!

Let’s wrap this Freepathon up, Folks!

Please bump the Freepathon or click above to donate or become a monthly donor!

16 posted on 03/08/2019 11:09:53 AM PST by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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Why not pay for all the perverts? Medicaid is loaded with unredeamed IOU’s in the “lockbox”.


17 posted on 03/08/2019 11:10:09 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: jazusamo

More braying from jackasses in black robes.


18 posted on 03/08/2019 11:10:36 AM PST by windsorknot
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To: jazusamo

That is also why the push is on to allow trannies in the military. Free hormone treatment and surgery at taxpayer expense.


19 posted on 03/08/2019 11:11:40 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: Da Coyote

I couldn’t agree more!


20 posted on 03/08/2019 11:12:42 AM PST by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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