Posted on 04/11/2015 3:07:29 PM PDT by wagglebee
April 9, 2015 (LifeSiteNews.com) – California, Oregon, and the Obama administration are increasingly forcing taxpayers to pay the price for transgender people to transition from one sex to another – even underwriting drugs that would stop the natural course of puberty.
Oregon is the first state in the nation to fund "puberty suppression" shots through Medicaid. The shots prevent puberty from naturally developing various physical characteristics of either sex, thus allowing a child to decide if he or she wants to develop normally at a later date – or attempt to change his or her gender.
The drug used to suppress puberty, Lupron, costs $7,500 per injection. It has been often used on children who start puberty early, and to treat prostate cancer and fibroid tumors.
In addition to its hefty price tag, drug also carries side effects for children. Dr. Megan Bird of the Legacy Medical Group in Portland, Oregon, told NPR that "the biggest risk that we talk about is bone deposition."
Additionally, "kids who first start Lupron get headaches and hot flushes sometimes, but those are usually only for a few weeks, and then they go away," she said. "Other issues is that they're out of synch with their peers.”
Sterility is also a risk, though Bird told NPR that allowing a child to temporarily begin puberty is possible – which would allow the harvesting of sperm and eggs for use at a later time.
Meanwhile in California, a judge has ruled that a transgender surgery that could cost as much as $100,000 must be given to a 51-year-old male prisoner who wishes to become female.
The state's prison system has not said whether it will appeal the ruling.
California and eight other states require private insurers to cover transgender-related medical care, and the state's Medicaid system also pays for transgender treatments.
The San Francisco judge who made the decision said that not providing transgender treatments violated the Eighth Amendment rights of the prisoner. RT.com reports that if the operation is successfully done, it would be the second such operation in U.S. prisons.
The first was done to Richard Masbruch after he castrated himself.
The Eighth Amendment was also cited in a recent decision by the Obama administration's Department of Justice, which told prison systems that total prohibitions on hormone treatments for transgender inmates is unconstitutional.
According to the New York Times, a 36-year-old prisoner held at the men's facility in the Georgia State Prison sued the state of Georgia in February for not continuing hormone treatment so he could present himself as a female.
His lawyers say that their client "has lost breast tissue and [his] female secondary sex characteristics have diminished."
“Prison officials have the obligation to assess and treat gender dysphoria just as they would any other medical or mental health condition,” said Vanita Gupta, the Justice Department’s top civil rights prosecutor. “Freeze-frame policies can have serious consequences to the health and well-being of transgender prisoners, who are among the most vulnerable populations incarcerated in our nation’s prisons and jails.”
So-called “freeze-frame policies” allow prisoners to receive treatments they are on when entered into prisons, but not afterward. Because the Georgia prisoner -- identified by the Times as Ashley Diamond -- was not listed as "transgender" when he entered prison, treatment was discontinued.
According to court documents, the Department of Justice says that the Georgia prison system, which has not yet commented on the decision by the federal agency, is violating Diamond's Eighth Amendment rights for the prevention of cruel and unusual punishment.
Federal taxpayers are currently on the hook for transgender treatment for Bradley “Chelsea” Manning, who is serving a 35-year sentence for leaking 700,000 military documents while serving in the Army, as well as transgender treatments for senior citizens under Medicare.
This is as stupid and dangerous as anything I've ever heard.
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well it certainly has “moral hazard” written all over it, not just from the standpoint of traditionalism, but that any drama queen can be the tail that wags the dog now.
if were going to survive this onslaught of insanity we need to draw on all available reseources and then some.
To that end I suggest that we need to do some research.... Post Haste... aimed at the development of a Progressive Supression Drug...
Why isn’t “”Bradley “Chelsea” Manning”” on Federal death row for treason?
No one should give Lupron to children. No one.
I can’t decide whether the model is a swinging pendulum or the Overton Window. In the pendulum case everything returns to what it was. In the Overton Window case what was left becomes first middle and then right. In the second case we keep going left until we all suicide for the good of the planet.
The way this looks, and has long looked, to me, the real Lord has set up permission for this kind of thing because He wants us to know it’s not even about morals and methodologies as much as it is about straight divine love, the thing that baffles the devil’s accusations with grace while yet not excusing sin.
When our formulas fail, then the Lord’s face will appear saying “do you miss Me yet?”
And for that you can thank our piece of sh#t president.
Amen.
I think I’ll start a program where we change liberals into conservatives it may be expensive at first but there would be one hell of return on investment and then change the “freak show LGBT crowd” into fodder.
As the legendary Bob Grant so often said: “It’s sick out there folks...and getting sicker”.
Well...they certainly voted for it. CA and OR must be thrilled to see what their voting habits have brought them!
Pieces of ordure appear around anuses... and there have been a lot of them.
Those who know about this by experience should not keep silent. Well if they do, it hurts God’s heart.
The enemy comes in as a bully. We have to exercise the resilience not to be put off by the bullies. Once the bully has stormed his storm, the bully has no other cards to play.
Since the feral gov got away with throwing taxpayer money at the volt, Tesla, solyndra, et al, they figure why not some other outrageously stupid thing as well?
That certain cancers can occur because of the “delayed puberty” shots will never occur to them in any way shape or form.
But we will all be stuck with the bill.
*rage*
This is about re-engineering humanity daily. Whee.
Has never worked and won’t work now.
A bunch of misfit freaks trying to make their malady appear normal. This is nothing less than child abuse.
And for some reason, the band DEVO popped to mind with the song “Post-postmodern man”.
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