Posted on 11/22/2021 3:48:40 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa law that prohibits Medicaid coverage for sex reassignment surgeries for transgender residents violates state law and the state constitution, a judge ruled in a decision made public Monday.
Judge William Kelly ordered the Iowa Department of Human Services to provide coverage for sex reassignment surgeries when ordered to treat gender dysphoria, a psychological distress that results from an incongruence between one’s sex assigned at birth and one’s gender identity. It often begins in childhood, and some people may not experience it until after puberty or much later, according to the American Psychiatric Association.
About 12 states exclude the surgeries in Medicaid coverage, 18 specifically include gender-affirming care and others do not address it.
The ruling is a victory for Aiden Vasquez and Mika Covington, two Iowans represented by the ACLU of Iowa.
It is not challenged in the record that surgical treatment for gender dysphoria is a serious medical condition and the surgery is recommended for Vasquez and Covington by medical professionals as necessary and effective, the judge said. He said Medicaid coverage is fundamental to ensure the availability of that treatment for economically disadvantaged Iowans.
“Once the medical community determined that surgery is medically necessary to treat this health issue, the government lost its rational basis to refuse to pay for the surgery,” Kelly said in a ruling signed on Friday but posted publicly with online court records on Monday. “The law appears to draw an arbitrary distinction. So, there is no plausible policy reason advanced by, or rationally related to, excluding transgender people from Medicaid reimbursement for medically necessary procedures.”
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Transgender is removed from Trans-dragon only by degree. In addition to hormone therapy, reconstruction, and prosthesis, the latter also suggests the need for an ignition source and fuel supply.
If sex change is covered, why not boob jobs and liposuction?
Also, make them an Admiral of Starfleet.
What the hell is this? My Aunt is on medicaid and was just denied a bunch of heart tests even though she has heart disease, but plastic surgery is a constitutional right? WHAT?
Transsexuals are a special group. Who knew?
You have a constitutional right to genital surgery, and to have taxpayers pay for that. Who knew?
I think we are going to learn soon that this judge is full of shit. Reversal coming.
Exactly! I would love to have a tummy tuck because I am so depressed that my clothes don’t fit right! It is making me crazy....yeah right!
And remember the freak and traitor Bradley Manning? We had to pay for his perversions as well and Obama the traitor PARDONS the freak!! The single largest security breach in US military history and Obama pardons him! We got people serving life right now for doing the same thing like former FBI agent Robert Hanssen who didn’t steal nowhere near 750,000 documents Manning stole. We need a major tax strike in this country.
Because people who want boob jobs and liposuctions don’t dedicate their lives to complaining about not getting them for free.
Listen to one of the last lines of LOLA by the Kinks. Says it all.
So a purely elective, cosmetic surgery will be taking up a massive amount of resources meant to treat those that are truly destitute and truly sick with illnesses like cancer, etc.
Messed up.
Depravity
“Once the medical community determined that surgery is medically necessary to treat this health issue,..”
Mutilating genitals is never medically necessary.
Yup the addadictome and chopadicoffme is clearly an elaborated right in the Iowa Constitution. I thought everyone knew that?
Huge Kinks fan since forever. Thanks!
now file a lawsuit against Iowa medicaid for discrimination for not allowing hetero women breast augementation or plastic surgery on the grounds it’s fullfillment of hetero sexual identity
goose gander
This is an EASY FIX!!
Unless the funding was previously appropriated through regular legislative business prior to any Judicial Order. All funds necessary to comply with a Judicial Order shall be paid for with an assessment on the incomes, tips, wages and assets of all Officers of the Court, including Judges,
If the court requires this, how can the government refuse any treatment.
“ coverage for sex reassignment surgeries when ordered to treat gender dysphoria, a psychological distress that results from an incongruence between one’s sex assigned at birth and one’s gender identity”
They would have a lot better luck shipping them off to the funny farm where they belong 🤪
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