Posted on 06/18/2015 1:45:58 PM PDT by redreno
CARSON CITY — State employees and covered family members will have health coverage for gender reassignment and other transgender procedures under a new insurance policy that takes effect July 1.
The Public Employee Benefits Program board voted in November to remove language in the state’s self-funded and HMO plans that specifically excluded therapy for gender dysphoria.
Brock Maylath, president of the advocacy group Transgender Allies Group, on Wednesday hailed the change as a “significant step” for the transgender community.
Previous language in the state insurance design plan excluded treatment designed to alter physical characteristics and any other treatment related to sex transformations.
“We commend the Nevada state PEBP board for making this significant step to ensure that transgender employees have access to lifesaving care,” Maylath said. “Medical treatment should be determined by conversations between a patient and a doctor, rather than on arbitrary exclusions created by an insurance company.”
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If someone is so determined and thinks that nature was in error, why not pay for it themselves? Or do the procedure on themselves?
Can I ask a stupid question? In an Obamacare world in which we will face restrictions and rationing of health care, and increased costs all around, why is it that elective surgery, in the case of sex change operations, are at the top of the list of approved allowable procedures??
do it to themselves??? OMG, can you imagine the “complications” if you will, if the “surgical instruments” don’t quite function as expected, and someone is in the ER with these complications????? Geez louise, why do we need to even go down this road???? To prove how liberal we are by bending over backwards to prove the LGBT peoples that we will operate on them????
Because of what gets covered becomes a political question and those who make the decision are from the Clerisy with the “right” credentials. So in this world paying for sex change operation > expensive experimental treatment.
Well, the world is upside down right now.
Why are politicians everywhere so anxious to subsidize insanity?
It makes no sense, does it?
But you know why....
I’m waiting for the first FREAK to come forward and DEMAND that, ‘We The People’ pay for his/her operation to make them both male AND female....like slimy Earthworms.
Do ya really think that’s not coming down the pike?
Again, WHY do we cater to the tiny MINORITY of mentally ill nut jobs in this country? Why?
Not so experimental, well established.
Christine Jorgensen (May 30, 1926 – May 3, 1989) was an American trans woman who was the first person to become widely known in the United States for having sex reassignment surgery. Jorgensen grew up in the Bronx, New York City. Shortly after graduating from high school in 1945, she was drafted into the U.S. Army for World War II. After her service she attended several schools, worked, and around this time heard about transitioning surgery.
“WHY do we cater to the tiny MINORITY of mentally ill nut jobs in this country?”
Obvious answer: the majority are depraved, mentally ill nut jobs.
Well (in the case of the state run by Sin City) the desire of the people who run the state is probably to produce younger transsexual prostitutes and have the he state pay for it.
The town built by Bugsy Siegel hasn’t strayed from its roots and it owns the legislature.
When did Western Civilization officially die?
Next step: mandatory sex reassignment if you are deemed transgendered.
What is not prohibited is mandatory.
You talking about congress in general or just the RINOs?
“...gender reassignment ...”
Do they pay for gender reinforcement at places like the Chicken Ranch?
Great news for Nevadans. Their state government is full of homosexual imbeciles.
I’d like to pretend I’m a unicorn and would like to have a horn transplanted to the middle of my forehead. Will it cover that?
But wait, gender is fluid...no need for these surgeries.
its not sex change, i dont knwo what it is. I know it’s an illness. and i know the country is going down a road that it wont be able to turn back from soon.
This is about more than gay rights and transgender.
IT’s saying that any deviancy is ok. Why cant i do what i want.
Child molesting is already accepted. Lena Dunham molested her little sister and was on the tonight show a few nights ago,
The only thing left that’s not accepted is sleeping with a 100 percent consenting girl who had a few drinks and decided she shouldn’t have slept with you so it’s retroactive rape
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