Posted on 03/08/2019 10:56:35 AM PST by jazusamo
The Iowa Supreme Court ruled that the state's Medicaid program must cover sex reassignment surgery for transgender people.
The court ruled Friday that the Iowa Department of Human Services discriminated against two women by denying their Medicaid claims for transition-related care.
The ruling means that many transgender Iowans will be able to obtain life-saving medical care that they were unable to get in the past," said John Knight with the American Civil Liberties Union, which represented the women.
The state argued that transition-related surgeries were not covered by Medicaid because they were "cosmetic, reconstructive or plastic surgery." It specifically banned "surgeries for the purpose of sex reassignment."
The decision upheld a lower court's ruling that the state's policy went against the state's civil rights act, which protects against gender-identity discrimination.
But the ACLU argued that the womens' medical providers determined the surgeries were medically necessary to treat their gender dysphoria.
There is nothing “life-saving” about genital mutilation.
Another punch in the face of every American by the tyrants in black robes. Don’t you just love it?
Just checked Iowa’s 200 page budget for 2019.
Guess $1.3 bil in HHS spending ain’t enough.
Its called elective surgery.
There is no right to tattoos, or cutting off your whatever.
That struck me too. Nobody is denying life saving medical care to transsexuals or anyone else.
This sort of lawsuit is absurd , yet in this liberal world , liberal judges think bodily mutilation is life saving.
Appeal
Based on the suicide rates of post-op trans, I would think denying them would be more life-saving.
Cutting one's healthy wee-wee off is "life-saving"? Nose jobs, too, I guess.
Can’t they appeal this preposterous decision?
“Like, if I don’t get it... I’ll just die!”
American Taxpayer getting Screwed Again.
I never thought of that.
I could have thought up some kind of illness to sue the government for to cover the cost of my tattoo :)
Why do people with different bodily dysmorphias have to go to South America to get their legs or arms amputated?
Sooner or later (hopefully sooner), we’re going to have to tell the courts to blow it out their Obamaholes.
If a sickie wants to change its sex, let IT pay for it.
Madness.
Lets wrap this Freepathon up, Folks!
Why not pay for all the perverts? Medicaid is loaded with unredeamed IOU’s in the “lockbox”.
More braying from jackasses in black robes.
That is also why the push is on to allow trannies in the military. Free hormone treatment and surgery at taxpayer expense.
I couldn’t agree more!
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