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In a subsection of the article entitled “Employment Discrimination in Provision of Employment Benefits” starting on page 635 of the review Sandra Fluke and her co-editor describe two forms of discrimination in benefits they believe LGBTQ individuals face in the work place:

“Discrimination typically takes two forms: first, direct discrimination limiting access to benefits specifically needed by LGBTQ persons, and secondly, the unavailability of family-related benefits to LGBTQ families.”

Their “prime example” of the first form of discrimination? Not covering sex change operations:

“A prime example of direct discrimination is denying insurance coverage for medical needs of transgender persons physically transitioning to the other gender.”

This so called “prime example” of discrimination is expounded on in a subsection titled “Gender Reassignment Medical Services” starting on page 636:

“Transgender persons wishing to undergo the gender reassignment process frequently face heterosexist employer health insurance policies that label the surgery as cosmetic or medically unnecessary and therefore uncovered.”

To be clear, the argument here is that employers are engaging in discrimination against their employees who want them to pay for their sex changes because their “heterosexist” health insurance policies don’t believe sex changes are medically necessary.


14 posted on 03/06/2012 5:27:36 AM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
....employers are engaging in discrimination against their employees who want them to pay for their sex changes ...

And not a scintilla of honesty or sincerity in any of it.

This is typical Alinskyite effrontery, designed only to put forward a roorback, a lie, about some idea or person the Alinskyites want to destroy. In this case, the Catholic institutions that deliver healthcare services.

This is all a political propaganda operation of Nancy Pelosi's (she's the one who supposedly sent The Fluke to attach itself to Georgetown) -- and a black one at that. " War Against Women", and all that.

17 posted on 03/06/2012 5:38:30 AM PST by lentulusgracchus
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