Posted on 06/24/2015 10:18:05 AM PDT by jazusamo
(CNSNews.com) – The Department of Health and Human Services’ most recent guidelines explaining the “preventive services” mandate under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act—or Obamacare—says health insurance plans must provide co-pay-free pap smears and mammograms to “transgender men.”
As defined by the federal Office of Personnel Management: “a person assigned the female sex at birth but who identifies as male is a transgender man.”
The guidelines, written as a FAQ sheet, state:
Q5: Can plans or issuers limit sex-specific recommended preventive services based on an individual's sex assigned at birth, gender identity or recorded gender?
No. Whether a sex-specific recommended preventive service that is required to be covered without cost sharing under PHS Act section 2713 and its implementing regulations is medically appropriate for a particular individual is determined by the individual's attending provider. Where an attending provider determines that a recommended preventive service is medically appropriate for the individual – such as, for example, providing a mammogram or pap smear for a transgender man who has residual breast tissue or an intact cervix – and the individual otherwise satisfies the criteria in the relevant recommendation or guideline as well as all other applicable coverage requirements, the plan or issuer must provide coverage for the recommended preventive service, without cost sharing, regardless of sex assigned at birth, gender identity, or gender of the individual otherwise recorded by the plan or issuer.
The FAQ goes on to state: “The HRSA Guidelines include a recommendation for all FDA-approved contraceptive methods, sterilization procedures, and patient education and counseling for all women with reproductive capacity, as prescribed by a health care provider.”
FDA-approved contraceptives include abortion-inducing drugs and IUDs.
CNSNews.com contacted HHS by email Thursday to ask whether the latest guidelines definitively mean that insurance companies must provide transgendered men with all forms of birth control mandated under Obamacare’s preventive services regulation. As of 12:50 p.m. Friday, the department had not responded.
As reported by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, 105 lawsuits have been filed against the federal government by plaintiffs who say the preventive services regulation violates their right to the free exercise of religion because it forces them to pay for or provide coverage for things in violation of their religious beliefs.
WHAT THE HELL?!
That doesn’t even sound right.
Barack Obama is a Pap Smear
When trying to assess the importance of this guideline, I can’t help but think about how they’ve tried to downplay the importance of regular PSA screening for prostate cancer, or to push out the recommended age for breast cancer screening of, uh, traditionally gendered women.
Looks like the ITS get it both ways.
Does it cover prostate exams for a transgender female?
Just more evidence every day that our country has gone insane.
Everything is completely ludicrous now. Every single day tops the previous one.
No problem. All this stuff is FREEEEE!!!
Every.single.day.
When do we get back to reality in this country? Every day is another circus or something more fit for Ripley’s. I am beyond weary from this constant drone of stuff one step removed from bathroom humor.
The country is circling the drain and all this clowns consider is how cold the water is.
It makes sense to give someone with a XX chromosome pattern these services if they still have the organs. What doesn’t make sense is calling them “he,” no matter how the identify.
Was he talking about Michelle?
It’s that ‘Law of Unintended Consequences/Slippery Slope’ thingy here. If a she/male still has female plumbing and is sexually active with it, she needs pap smears. If said she/male has had her breast tissue removed and still needs mammograms, then mammograms had better be covered for all men. The medical community is twisting itself into a pretzel trying to keep up with all the ‘mandated’ PC. Or is it ‘womandated’ PC......oh, never mind!
....and the hermaphrodites......I guess they have Pap and Prostrate exams.
Men do get breast cancer, much more aggressive, just not as often (less tissue). Had a scare myself when a lump appeared. That being said, don’t think a mammogram on an implant would accomplish much
But...how is the...I mean...where will...but you...F it!
Yep. Your gender, no matter how your phenotype (appearance) appears, will ALWAYS be XY (male) or XX (female). No amount of PC will EVER be able to change that!
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