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Canadian academics say taxpayers should pay for ‘gender-affirming’ surgeries
American Thinker ^ | 08/25/2023 | Eric Utter

Posted on 08/25/2023 8:19:45 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Katie Ross and Sarah Fraser, a brace of medical academics from Canada’s Dalhousie University, recently opined that taxpayers should pay for “minimally invasive” gender-affirming surgeries such as “voice feminization” and hair removal. The demented duo penned an editorial that found its way into the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

The CMA bemoans the fact that such publicly funded procedures are currently only available in two Canadian jurisdictions, and also that “gender-affirming care” suffers from “substantial wait times and care gaps.” Every form of health care in Canada suffers from substantial wait times and care gaps. It is fervently to be hoped that those in dire need of, say, critical cardio-vascular care or organ transplants would be served before those requesting “voice feminization” procedures and/or hair removal to suit their current professed gender identity.

Taxpayers, whether Canadian or American, are having more and more of their hard-earned dollars surgically removed from their wallets. Moreover, an increasing amount of the money these governments take from their citizenry goes to pay for programs that are the opposite of necessary. Illegal aliens benefit from some of their largesse.

In the U.S., we pay to put those who pour across our undefended border in nice hotels; in many cases pay for their health care and education, too. Should we now be made to pay for the most preposterous of elective surgeries and treatments, as well? The United States is nearing $50 trillion in debt. If nothing changes, in the not-too-distant future debt service payments will be the single biggest expenditure we have going forward. That is crazy. Bat-sh*t crazy.

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TOPICS: Canada; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: canada; surgery; taxpayers; transgender

1 posted on 08/25/2023 8:19:45 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

What about smile-affirming cosmetic dentistry? How about excitement affirming breast augmentation implants? How about skin affirming acne scar removal? How about (fill-in-affirming-procedure-here?)


2 posted on 08/25/2023 8:24:47 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: SeekAndFind

As does the American Medical Assn.

I have thought about this and would support mandatory gender affirming castration or oophorectomy for people who support this


3 posted on 08/25/2023 8:32:50 AM PDT by algore
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To: SeekAndFind
Katie Ross and Sarah Fraser

Y'all should be tacked to a barn wall and left to dry out in the sun.

4 posted on 08/25/2023 8:36:21 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Okay, we take ALL the money originally meant for “academics” and use that for state sponsored mutilation. No?


5 posted on 08/25/2023 8:40:26 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉)
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To: Gen.Blather

EXACTLY.


6 posted on 08/25/2023 8:41:08 AM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: SeekAndFind

Gender affirming? No! Sex-of-birth denying is correct.


7 posted on 08/25/2023 8:48:11 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Canadian academics

LOL .. two strikes before stepping up to the plate   :-)

8 posted on 08/25/2023 8:52:30 AM PDT by tomkat (SOTU = FUBAR)
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To: SeekAndFind

The argument ultimately becomes everybody should have everything.


9 posted on 08/25/2023 8:56:36 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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--- " ‘gender-affirming’ surgeries"

Dickectomy and fakevag-construction.

Arm meat to contribute to the fake NewDick.

And both making for sterile "affirmed" people, such that the latest call is for a "womb transplant" meaning taking body parts from a real female to put into a male. The idiocy is not as great as the profits to those who practice this barbarism.

Small point: NO male wanting to surgically play act as a female and NO female wanting to surgically play act as a male ever wants surgery to be any of the OTHER many "genders" about which the idiots rant, when condemning "binary" prejudice and then demonstrating their own binary prejudice.

They are nuts. See: "How Many Genders Are There? Gender Identity List"

Source: https://www.sexualdiversity.org/edu/1111.php

10 posted on 08/25/2023 9:14:28 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

Is Jordan Petersen the only academic in Canada with a properly working brain? May God help Canada with their Legions of demons.


11 posted on 08/25/2023 9:16:54 AM PDT by Colt1851Navy (What was wrong with Nixon?)
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To: Colt1851Navy
--- "Is Jordan Petersen the only academic in Canada with a properly working brain? May God help Canada with their Legions of demons."

Were it I, the "sessions" would be live-streamed such that the psych-Maoists would be seen by and all interested parties, and recorded to posterity.

12 posted on 08/25/2023 9:24:21 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: Lizavetta; Gen.Blather

There’s no end to it.


13 posted on 08/25/2023 10:05:06 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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