Posted on 03/06/2020 7:17:37 PM PST by ransomnote
In a year when the General Assembly passed sweeping LGBTQ-friendly legislation, it’s a relatively low-profile health bill that has opponents questioning whether the state is going too far in its protections for transgender Virginians.
The Senate Commerce and Labor committee voted 12-2 on Monday to report a bill from Del. Danica Roem, D-Manassas, that would ban health insurance companies from denying or limiting coverage based on a patient’s gender identity or transgender status. The legislation, which passed the House 54-41, is expected to clear the Senate in a similarly party-line vote.
The bill codifies federal protections first established under the Affordable Care Act. In 2016, the Department of Health and Human Services issued final regulations clarifying that the law would extend nondiscrimination protections to patients on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability. While the federal government has never clarified that “sex discrimination” includes disparate treatment based on sexual orientation or transgender status (the subject of an ongoing Supreme Court case), the regulations make it clear that the federal Office for Civil Rights would consider gender identity when evaluating discrimination complaints from patients.
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Patients dictate the extent of their treatment, but current medical standards include hormones or gender reassignment surgery. Numerous research papers, including a 2018 study on transgender veterans, have found that the treatments can significantly improve mental health outcomes and reduce the risk of suicide.
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IIRC, a Johns Hopkins study found precisely the opposite. Or, at least that many who had undergone a portion of the "change" (top and/or bottom) were unhappy, and wanted to change back to where they started before reassignment.
Several other studies indicate opposite results over longer time periods. This study seems focused on a two week period. The longest part of it is a year and two weeks.
But the process is not reversible.
In his testimony against the bill, Jeff Caruso, founding director of the Virginia Catholic Conference...“Our understanding of the human person is that one has an innate sexual identity that is reflected in the person’s biology,” he added. “Gender reassignment surgeries do not align with this understanding.”
the Christian-affiliated Family Foundation of Virginia, opposed the bill entirely. “We’re creating a new category of personhood,” he argued in his testimony against the bill on Monday. Family Foundation President Victoria Cobb added that the bill set a new precedent by defining “gender identity” as an internal sense of gender that could include male, female, neither, or a combination of the two. https://www.virginiamercury.com/2020/03/04/over-the-objections-of-religious-groups-virginia-is-poised-to-mandate-nondiscriminatory-care-for-transgender-patients/
Meaning whatever a person ID's as is what must be recognized, and treatment provided, and which will extend to teens and likely lower. Together with The proposed Federal "Equality Act " then religious exemptions are overruled. Meaning all must salute the flag of Sodom, and contribute to the cause. Or face punishment.
A number of British studies have exposed the same trend....unhappiness after the whole game had been played out.
I think the key element of success is that once you’ve had all the operations...you need to continue to have mental health professionals in the middle to convince you (in a fake sort of way) that you are now different. As long as they stay in the loop...you keep thinking that you are different. Once that element is removed, you resort to asking questions and realize that your change was just a joke (on you).
so they are going to treat XX for testicular cancer and XY for menstrual cramps?
Virginia continues to morph into California-East.
The last Article creates the mechanism for future changes to the Constitution. Any amendment to the Constitution must first be passed by a majority in each of the two legislative houses. The proposed amendment must then be held over for consideration by the succeeding elected legislature, where it must again be passed by a majority in each house. The amendment then goes on the general ballot and becomes enacted into the Constitution if approved by a majority of the voters.
Alternatively, a two-thirds vote of both Virginia houses may call for the creation of a constitutional convention. Any revisions or amendments proposed by the constitutional convention are presented to the citizens of Virginia and become law upon approval by a majority of voters.
There is a perennial discussion over Virginia's unique Constitutional status restricting its governor to one consecutive term, and its method of selecting both trial and appellate judges by state legislature, shared only with South Carolina.[40]
Save transgender, kill babies
Fine. Insurers can properly asses the level of health-care-needs risk such persons have and devise premiums for their coverage accordingly.
They will. And then the rest of us will pay for it.
This is over THE OBJECTION OF MANY VIRGINIANS.
However, there isn’t much they can do about it.
“They will. And then the rest of us will pay for it.”
I don’t know what “we” you are referring to.
Private insurers set their own premiums, and individuals can be charged different premiums due to their age and relevant health information. Group policies for a whole company or union situation are another matter, and in their case any additional health needs risk for some in the group will likely be built into the general premium the company or union is paying for the group policy. That still does not answer just who is the “we” you are referring to.
It certainly does not refer to anyone outside the state wherein the law is being enacted.
Does it include XY getting an hysterectomy?
No.
They can only get a hysterectomx.
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