The cheese is inside the omelet.
Posted on 05/16/2008 4:45:14 PM PDT by wagglebee
TORONTO, Ontario, May 16, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Ontario’s health insurance plan will pay for “sex-change” operations for the first time in a decade, Health Minister George Smitherman confirmed yesterday
"(It would) probably affect between eight and 10 people in Ontario, who after having very, very sustained psychological evaluations would be deemed by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health as appropriate candidates to receive a surgical intervention," Smitherman speculated.
Ontario began covering the bill for “sex-change” operations in 1971, but ceased doing so in 1998 under the Progressive Conservative government.
In 2006, the Ontario Human Rights Commission required compensation for three patients midway through preparation for sex-change surgery during the 1998 insurance plan change.
The Centre Metropolitain de Chirurgie Plastique, a private hospital in Montreal, has already been offering “sex-change” procedures to patients for $17 thousand.
The Health Minister added yesterday that he would give more details about funding for “sex-change” operations in a few weeks when discussing funding plans for the province’s health-care services.
Smitherman, appointed Health Minister in 2003 by Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty, is an openly active homosexual, infamous for advancing sexually permissive social policies.
While many psychiatrists have promoted “sex-change” operations based upon the notion that “gender” is a cultural construct distinct from one’s genetically determined sex, other prominent psychiatrists have rejected the prudence of so-called “sex-change” operations.
After he became Psychiatrist-in-Chief at Johns Hopkins University, Paul McHugh found that “sex-change” operations failed to solve patients’ difficulties with relationships, work, or emotions.
In his First Things article, “Surgical Sex,” McHugh recounts finding the “transgendered” participants in “sex-change” operations unpersuasive evidence for the surgery’s effectiveness.
“The post-surgical subjects struck me as caricatures of women. They wore high heels, copious makeup, and flamboyant clothing; they spoke about how they found themselves able to give vent to their natural inclinations for peace, domesticity, and gentleness--but their large hands, prominent Adam's apples, and thick facial features were incongruous (and would become more so as they aged).”
“Women psychiatrists whom I sent to talk with them would intuitively see through the disguise and the exaggerated postures. ‘Gals know gals,’ one said to me, ‘and that's a guy.’”
Following his extensive research into the “sex-change” phenomena, McHugh ended “sex-change” operations at John Hopkins and has encouraged other facilities to do the same.
“I concluded that Hopkins was fundamentally cooperating with a mental illness. We psychiatrists, I thought, would do better to concentrate on trying to fix their minds and not their genitalia.”
See related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Openly Homosexual Ontario Health Minister Seeking to Become a “Dad”
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/jan/06010502.html
Read Dr. McHugh’s article:
http://www.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=398
Learn more about the “sex-change” phenomena:
http://www.narth.com/docs/desiresch.html
To politely express your concern to the Health Minister:
Queen's Park
Ministry of Health & Long-Term Care
Hepburn Block, 10th Floor, 80 Grosvenor Street
Toronto, ON, M7A 2C4
Tel: 416-327-4300
Fax: 416-326-1571
Or
Community Action Centre
514 Parliament Street
Toronto, ON
M4X 1P4
Tel: 416-972-7683
Fax: 416-972-7686
TTY: 416-972-972-9674
Email: gsmitherman.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org
I thought Wag was saying if people wanted expensive, medically unnecessary surgery to purposely pose as the opposite sex it is deliberate and voluntary mutilation that they should not expect the taxpayer to pay for. This is not at all your dear sister's case. I, and I am sure most people, would empty my pockets to help someone in your sister's case. God bless.
Clarifying and correcting IS NOT "patronizing."
When cancer is eating your body you WILL WANT to mutilate it.
No, you will want to remove the cancer, the fact that parts of your body will be removed is a tragic consequence.
I'll just consider your response more ignorance.
Are you psychic?
I really can't stand to respond to your other post. I've had enough of your rudeness.
You accuse me of being "ignorant and hateful" because I made comments about freaks who want to mutilate their bodies because they think they should be a different gender and you have the audacity to call me rude?
Precisely! NOTHING I wrote in my original post had ANYTHING to do with cancer.
You still don’t get it, do you? Cancer is not a psychological disorder like gender confusion. Cancer is not the deliberate mutilation of one’s body for the sake of perverse pleasure.
Why are you harassing Wagglebee?
Well, that's a surprise. Amputation didn't work where psychiatry wasn't tried effectively...
My appendix was removed after it ruptured when I was 15, the alternative was to die of peritonitis and septic shock, I never really thought of myself as being “mutilated”.
I can tell who is what no matter what they are (except I wished wagglebee a happy sister week).
LOL
A sex change operation does involve mutilation and so does plastic surgery not that Michael Jackson didn’t already pay a high price for mutilating his face and bones. He over mutilated.
And I STILL don’t have my omelet!
He was born a poor black boy, now he’s a rich white woman!
If you want wagglebee to stay away from you, why are you on the thread he posted? That makes no sense to me and this is about sex change, not cancer. All cancer patients and survivors have my deepest respect and sympathy.
Maybe it has something to do with the location of the scar, or which body parts are effected. I don’t think of any of my scars or my husband’s scars as mutilation. But neither of us have had a mastectomy.
That’s a really freakish attitude, to equate a medically necessary mastectomy with a perverted body mutilation. How offensive!
attempted thread disruption by baiting the author. Happens all the time at FR.
Maybe you should start a cancer vanity post cuz this thread really isn’t about cancer or find a support group.
That's because you have a healthy attitude toward health related issues. Too bad there isn't an operation for those who don't. But then, if there was, would they agree to such "mutilation?"
I haven’t had omelet 1 yet and I’d like a side of crisp bacon too.
The cheese is inside the omelet.
That’s a great idea, FV.
PR, would you like me to send you list of support groups? Ping me if you start a thread on cancer.
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