Posted on 01/05/2021 9:47:30 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Just before the end of 2020, California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara issued an order stating that insurance companies cannot refuse to pay for a minor girl’s mastectomy just because she isn’t 18 yet. He reached this conclusion by defining the surgical removal of healthy breasts and the “creation of a male chest” as medically “necessary” for girls suffering from gender dysphoria (the painful sense of identifying with the gender opposite their biological sex) rather than “cosmetic.” This means that a gender dysphoric girl’s healthy chest would be considered “abnormal” if she identifies as male.
“For far too long, individuals diagnosed with gender dysphoria have had to battle a host of challenges to get access to gender-affirming care in order to be their true selves,” Commissioner Lara said in a statement. He suggested that requiring girls to be 18 before they surgically remove their breasts is an example of “outdated medical criteria” that “create barriers to necessary medical care.”
Lara had his general counsel issue this order after the group Trans Family Support Services submitted a request to the California Department of Insurance asking whether it is legally permissible for insurance providers to deny transgender mastectomy coverage for girls under 18 due to their age. Lara ruled that “insurers may not deny coverage for a mastectomy and creation of a male chest (‘male chest reconstruction surgery’) for treating gender dysphoria in female-to-male patients based solely on the insured individual’s age.”
Note the Orwellian redefinition of terms. When an otherwise physically healthy gender-confused girl under 18 removes her breasts and has her chest reshaped to appear like that of a man, the insurance department terms this “male chest reconstruction surgery.” It uses the term “mastectomy” without acknowledging that this involves the removal of healthy tissue.
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More insanity.
“...gender-confused girl...”
WRONG....
Mentally ill girl is correct....
I hope that California residents’ insurance rates are adjusted to take care of this madness and that saner states’ insurance policyholders don’t have to subsidize it.
Any doctor who performs such an operation is an enemy of human existence. In a sane country it would be a death penalty offense.
I guess that is going to include breast implants when the girl finally realizes what she’s done and tries to reverse it.
What about species-confused? Height-confused? symmetry-confused?
1990’s conservatism fought against this stuff by calling for capital gains tax cuts and bombing some Moslems halfway around the world. I mean, as long as we have low taxes (and weed and porn), and they’re not doing it right in our faces, who cares?
That’s when we lost the country. Conservatism was forged to fight the Cold War. Parts of that coalition took over, leaving nothing to push back against this garbage. We were warned.
Social issues ended up being the only ones that really mattered. Subverting a church or a corporation (or close to all of them)
or the GOP is a lot easier than subverting the pro life movement.
These people need frontal lobe lobotomies, not Breast “reconstruction”
This stuff is a horrific nightmare. These poor girls.
Parents won't even be legally allowed to try to talk some sense into their own children.
“This stuff is a horrific nightmare. These poor girls.”
I agree. Growing up in an unstable home, broken home, poor parental direction. Could lead to confusion, then they’re taken down a path they wouldn’t normally have taken. Their bodies altered. Then a few years later as they mature realize they liked who they were, not what they are now. The emotional consequences these poor kids will go through because of how adults lead them astray... life shattering. Criminal really.
Wicked. California should leave America.
Truly, truly a state gone mad.
Relatedly:
Truly, truly DC gone mad.
Truly, truly a country gone mad, and madness is evil.
but can’t smoke or drink...
Current trends and data suggest a suicide rate of about 30% awaits these beneficiaries of leftwing medicine.
Totally.
Cause that is one of the most pressing issues in the state.
/s
Our top elected officials have a wigged out group of crazies
shouting into their ear 24/7/365.
Why are states allowing surgeons to mutilate minors?
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