Posted on 08/22/2019 10:22:09 AM PDT by jazusamo
An Obama-appointed federal judge is forcing Wisconsin taxpayers to provide costly sex reassignment surgery and hormonal procedures for low-income transgender residents who get free medical care from the government. In a recently issued ruling U.S. District Judge William M. Conley writes that Medicaid, the publicly funded insurance that covers 65.7 million poor people, cannot deny the medical treatment needs of those suffering from “gender dysphoria.” Officials estimate it will cost up to $1.2 million annually to provide transgender Medicaid recipients in the Badger State with treatments such as “gender confirmation” surgery, including elective mastectomies, hysterectomies, genital reconstruction and breast augmentation. The intricate operations are typically done by plastic surgeons.
The ruling culminates a lawsuit filed more than a year ago by two transgender Wisconsinites, who accuse the federal and state-funded insurance program of providing them with disparate and inferior health care on the basis of sex. Cody Flack of Green Bay and Sara Makenzie of Baraboo say they suffer from severe gender dysphoria that requires costly surgery. Flack, a woman, claims to be ashamed of her breasts and wants to have them surgically removed as she transitions into a man’s body. To make a case for the government to pay for her surgery, she claims that she engages in “binding,” which flattens her breasts and causes sores, skin irritation and respiratory distress. Flack also has difficulty binding her breasts due to a disability, according to court documents . Makenzie, a man who legally changed his name to Sara and wears women’s clothing, says his “male-appearing genitalia” causes him “great distress” and negatively affects his sexuality and social life. Showering and seeing his body in a mirror is “painful,” court records state, and Makenzie fears someone will be able to see his “male genitals” through his clothing.
Last summer Judge Conley issued a preliminary injunction ordering Wisconsin to cover sex reassignment surgery for Flack and Makenzie while state health officials appealed. The permanent ruling directing the state-federal insurance for the poor to pay for all gender confirmation operations in the state was issued last week. To lay the foundation, Conley writes in the injunction that gender dysphoria is a serious medical condition, which if left untreated can cause adverse symptoms. “As a group, transgender individuals have been subjected to harassment and discrimination in virtually every aspect of their lives, including in housing, employment, education, and health care,” according to the document. “Their own families, acquaintances and larger communities can be sources of harassment. For some transgender individuals, though certainly not all, the dissonance between their gender identity and their naturally assigned sex can manifest itself in the form of gender dysphoria, a serious medical condition recognized by both sides’ experts and the larger medical community as a whole.”
Though Medicaid initially denied Flack’s chest reconstructive surgery, it was eventually completed at taxpayer expense after the judge’s injunction. A plastic surgeon performed a double mastectomy and male chest construction last fall. “Following the surgery, Cody’s gender dysphoria was greatly diminished,” according to Conley’s final ruling, because his “outward appearance matched his male gender” and he “would no longer be misgendered because of his breasts.” Makenzie got a bilateral orchiectomy and vaginoplasty to create “female appearing external genitalia” after the judge determined that the surgeries are medically necessary. Because Medicaid refused to cover chest reconstruction surgery prior to the lawsuit, Makenzie obtained a personal loan to pay a plastic surgeon at the University of Wisconsin Hospital for the operation in 2016. Court documents say Makenzie contends that the surgery helped alleviate his gender dysphoria.
In his decision, Judge Conley cites guidelines issued by the World Professional Association of Transgender Health to treat transsexual, transgender and gender nonconforming people. Treatments include psychotherapy, hormone therapy and “a number of surgical procedures” to eliminate the development of unwanted secondary sex characteristics of the assigned sex, develop secondary sex characteristics of the sex associated with the patient’s gender identity and enhance the patient’s ability to “pass” as the sex associated with the patient’s gender identity to decrease harassment, mistreatment and other forms of discrimination.
Democrat judges rule that all taxpayers must make these mentally diseased freaks feel normal. That’s Democrat “justice.”
So-called gender reassignment is nothing but a form of plastic surgery, which no insurance company covers. Getting a nose job is no different than getting a dick job.
[[”Judge Conley cites guidelines issued by the World Professional Association of Transgender Health”.]]
a FICTITIOUS group of ‘professionals’ that was invented solely for the purpose of giving mentally ill people SPECIAL RIGHTS that far exceed the rights of normal mentally well citizens
I couldn’t agree more.
Public humiliation as in days of old would do much to rein in idiot judges like this one.
If you follow the money, you will find the same people who finance the LGBT activist are invested in the hormone blocker drugs and services/businesses that assist kids in reassignment.
To make money you identify a need, if there is no need create one. Examples: Global Warming now gender dysphoria
To make max profit invest in marketing of that need, LGBT activist, news and etc. Convince parents to allow their kids to be reassign sex
Invest in companies that sale products to meet that need: drug companies and health centers
To top it off get the Government and health insurance to pay for it.
Results: A bunch of powerful people get richer, gain politico power and they put a dent in the future population.
That might be an interesting debate topic...lol
[[But we taxpayers are made to pay for elective surgeries that cost tens of thousands of dollars each.]]
that will NOT lead to happiness, but rather to more severe mental illness, which we the taxpayers will be forced to treat in addition to the idiotic ‘gender reassignment surgeries’
Like you say- good decent people die because they can’t get adequate health coverage, but mentally sick people get whatever the left demands they get-
“:^)
Gonna put Michelle back the way she was???
It makes fiscal sense from the governments perspective. Treat them for mental illness and depression for decades or give them the surgery and wait for half of them to commit suicide, as they generally do. Let the savings add up.
I favor trying to help them get better, not feeding their mental illness until the despair is too much to handle, but that makes me intolerant so....:
Don, Don, Don,
Mochelle”s is larger than yours or mine.
Our society is headed for a major sh*t storm of epic proportions.
Ping to Nero Germanicus.
More examples of conservatives speaking about idiot/liar federal judges in the manner in which such idiot/liar judges deserve.
Didn’t know they paid for cosmetic surgery.
Medically Assisted Drag is not “medical treatment”.
This is where the Kelo Decision comes in. SEIZE the Judges Home under Eminent Domain and turn it into a Transgender Living facility
Gender is not a definition of sexual existence. It is the role defined by people in our society.
The terms “sex” and “gender” have been used interchangeably, but their uses are distinctly different, and it is important to understand the differences between the two.
In general terms, “sex” refers to the biological differences between males and females, such as the genitalia and their use differences in nature. “Gender” is more difficult to define, but it can refer to the role of a male or female in society, known as a gender role, or an individual’s concept of themselves, or gender identity.
This is why there is such a problem using the term gender when defining equality based upon the male female relationship and calling someone the false name of gender identity opposite their sexual existence. Therefore the court’s action of causing a government agency, at any level, to pay for sex reassignment surgery and hormonal procedures for low-income transgender residents is not Constitutionally correct as you cannot change sexes as science has not figured out how to create the sperm and eggs within a body to accomplish conception. Therefore, there is no such thing as a sex reassignment. Doctors are not God. There is only gender re-assignment and it doesn’t take a doctor to do that. So it shouldn’t be paid for at all unless the patient wishes to. Not my business.
rwood
“treatments such as “gender confirmation” surgery,”
“gender confirmation surgery”?!
They butcher the language the way they do their bodies. My head hurts.
Buy him a hedge clipper, a bottle of whisky and a DYI book.
$30 max.
Are you sure?
You were walking funny after the last time I gave it you..... /s
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