Posted on 10/31/2025 1:30:44 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A key strategy in the Trump administration’s crackdown on gender medicine is identifying and prosecuting insurance fraud. A common form of potential billing fraud involves use of the diagnosis “Endocrine Disorder Not Otherwise Specified” (E34.9 in the International Classification of Diseases handbook), instead of “Gender Identity Disorders” (F64), for patients who do not have or are not being treated for endocrine disorders.
Critics of gender medicine might argue that fraud exists even with appropriate diagnostic coding. The “gender dysphoria” diagnosis, the reasoning goes, was created in 2013 for the purpose of ensuring insurance coverage for medical interventions.
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The argument is not without merit. In the 2010s, advocates of gender medicine in the United States recognized the dilemma for their field. Delisting gender identity disorder from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) would “destigmatize” gender incongruence, but at the expense of losing insurance coverage, which requires a diagnostic code. Because people who wished to undergo medical transition had no physical pathology, it was not possible to adopt a physiological diagnosis.
Heino Meyer-Bahlburg, a prominent figure in transgender medicine, concluded at the time that “the decision on the categorization of GIV [gender identity variants] cannot be achieved on a purely scientific basis” and called for “a pragmatic compromise.”
The compromise arrived in 2013, when the American Psychiatric Association replaced gender identity disorder with “gender dysphoria” in the DSM-5. Unlike gender identity disorder, the concept of gender dysphoria was not thought to imply that the mismatch between a person’s sex and self-conception of being a man or woman was itself a disorder.
The conceptual problem, however, was not resolved but merely swept under the rug in the interest of working...
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The insurance coding system is DESIGNED with fraud in mind.
It seems one huge aspect of the problem is they did do away with the stigma. If just one doctor had said, “What?! You’re crazy!? I’m not going to ‘transition’ you. I’ll refer you to a psychiatrist.” That patient would have gone back to just cross dressing in the privacy of his own home.
As people who have had their gonads cut off age, they’ll start to have substantially more disabling medical issues than they would have had otherwise. A friend in his eighties recently was given medication to chemically castrate him, to treat cancer. There’s an uncommon side effect of psychosis. Yep. He got it. While in a psychotic state he became angry. His blood pressure shot up, and he had multiple strokes. The thing is he had someone who was supposed to be monitoring his response every day. They charted it but didn’t take him off the medication.
I visited my friend yesterday. In broken, stuttering speech he said he’d much rather he’d just died.
The MEDICAL coding system was never intended to be used for ACCOUNTING purposes, but they hijacked it anyway.
I’d wager a guess that all of it is fraud plied upon the mentally ill.
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