Posted on 06/16/2015 12:12:13 PM PDT by reaganaut1
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It is a transgender moment. President Obama was hailed just for saying the word “transgender” in his State of the Union speech this year, in a list of people who should not be discriminated against. They are characters in popular television shows. Bruce Jenner’s transition from male sex symbol to a comely female named Caitlyn has elevated her back to her public profile as a gold-medal decathlete at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
With growing tolerance, the question is no longer whether gender reassignment is an option, but rather, how young should it begin.
While no law prohibits minors from receiving sex-change hormones or even surgery, insurers, both private and public, have generally refused to extend coverage for these procedures to those under 18. In March, New York’s Medicaid, the nation’s largest, drew a line at that age, and at 21 for some procedures.
But the number of teenagers going through gender reassignment has been growing amid wider acceptance of transgender identity, more parental comfort with the treatment and the emergence of a number of willing practitioners. Now advocates like Empire State Pride Agenda are fighting for coverage at an earlier age, beginning with hormone blockers at the onset of puberty, saying it is more seamless for a teenage boy to transition to becoming an adult woman, for example, if he does not first become a full-bodied man.
“Some of these women are passing, but barely, when they transition at 40 or 50,” said Dr. Irene Sills, an endocrinologist who just retired from a busy practice in the Syracuse area treating transgender children, including Kat. “At 16 or 17, you are going to have such an easier life with this.”
Given that there are no proven biological markers for what is known as gender dysphoria
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The march of mainstreaming mental illnesses goes forth.
Parents should be arrested.
Doctors, too.
The ways things are trending, parents who don’t appease their confused children will be arrested and/or have their children taken away. The trend must be reversed.
Stop right there. Bruce Jenner is a dude in a wig with breast implants. He's not a 'her'.
I'm not going to pretend Bruce Jenner is a woman any more than I'm going to pretend that a woman retroactively won the Men's Decathlon in the 1976 Olympics, or that LeBron James wearing a Rachel Dolezal wig would be regarded as far and away the most dominating female basketball player that the WNBA has ever seen.
Just F'ing stop it, you liberal goofballs. I refuse to play along and resolve to make a point of it.
Comely isn’t an adjective I’d consider using in the same sentence either.
With obamacare and the trend towards medical care rationing, you can be certain that sex change operations will be at the top of the list of permitted operations.
And that health insurers will be required to pay for sex change operations.
If liberals are in control of this country, this is the type of nonsense which becomes law and/or accepted policy.
I knew someone in her late 20s- and the doctor refused to give her a tubal ligation until she was much older. But they will do this at 18?
Remembering high school: “Glory Days.”
If cats and dogs could vote, the radical, twisted left would be attacking the SPCA for not allowing sex change operations.....anything for any group of freaks and losers FOR VOTES!!!
If one needs proof that demonic powers and principalities are at work in the world, this article is a good starting point.
They should be interrogated by the FBI and prosecuted for abuse.
They want to chop up kids now
so insane
Surgery to change them back is on the rise too.
Jenner is also 65 years old. While there are a few hotties out there at that age, he ain’t one of them.
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