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SPARTA statement on HHS policy change (Military Transgender Freak Show)
LGBT Weekly ^ | May 30, 2014

Posted on 05/31/2014 2:32:01 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

The Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) ruled today that “sex reassignment surgery” and other transition-related medical care should no longer be automatically excluded from coverage.

“As HHS appropriately points out, excluding coverage for transition-related surgery is unreasonable as viewed by the standards of the medical profession today – incomplete, unfair, and obsolete,” said SPARTA Policy Director, former Army Captain Allyson Robinson. “The application of scientifically proven, internationally recognized standards of care to recipients of Medicare is a step in the right direction.”

She continued, “As transgender service members continue to put themselves in harm’s way for our country, we look forward to the day when those same standards are applied to them. They’ve certainly earned it.”

SPARTA, an LGBT military organization, includes several hundred transgender members currently serving in uniform.

SPARTA is an association of LGBT people who currently serve or have served in the military, along with our families and our veteran and uniformed allies. We are a membership organization, built by, for and with members from all parts of the LGBT military community. SPARTA’s mission is to advocate for and support our actively serving LGBT military members and veterans, and their families.

The name originated from the acronym Servicemembers, Partners, and Allies for Respect and Tolerance for All.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: breakdownoforder; gaymilitary; homosexualagenda; lavendermafia; obamalegacy
Hell in a hand basket.
1 posted on 05/31/2014 2:32:02 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If men can now get breast implants, are underendowed women ALSO able to get them?

If not, why not?


2 posted on 05/31/2014 2:35:44 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
And these freaks consider this being 'on the right side of history'.

Both pathetic and amusing at once.

3 posted on 05/31/2014 2:35:48 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Hell in a hand basket.

At light speed!

4 posted on 05/31/2014 2:37:46 PM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We are in the repeat of the fall of Rome


5 posted on 05/31/2014 2:38:44 PM PDT by goodnesswins (R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

my friend’s Grand Daughter has a Cleft lip and no way can they get it fixed


6 posted on 05/31/2014 2:45:56 PM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
“The application of scientifically proven, internationally recognized standards of care to recipients of Medicare is a step in the right direction.”

In other words we need to be like Europe.

They always have to say how backward the United States is compared to Europe when they want to expand social programs in to some new and stupid direction.

So now tax payer dollars are going to be spent so people who don’t want to or can’t afford to pay for it themselves can have doctors mutilate their bodies.

7 posted on 05/31/2014 2:47:29 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They are saying that these operations are medically necessary?!! WTH?

These surgeries have a very large failure and complication rate, and require frequent revisions, all to support some transvestite’s delusions. I consider them medically unethical because they amount to mutilating an otherwise healthy patient.

Well, not mentally healthy, but you know what I mean.


8 posted on 05/31/2014 3:24:10 PM PDT by Gunpowder green
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To: a fool in paradise

“If men can now get breast implants, are underendowed women ALSO able to get them?”

What a wonderful question, and a good angle of attack. Since “lifestyle” operations, like reducing foot pain, are often not covered, why is not a man’s penis extension (or enhancement) covered?


9 posted on 05/31/2014 3:46:00 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

When Republicans are again in charge, it will be simple to just reclassify it as “elective surgery”. When this is done there is no obligation for the taxpayer to pay for it.


10 posted on 05/31/2014 4:09:46 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

SPARTA?

This. Is. Madness.


11 posted on 05/31/2014 4:17:29 PM PDT by RichInOC ("ARMAGEDDON!")
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
When Republicans are again in charge, it will be simple to just reclassify it as “elective surgery”.

Really? With all those black robed terrorists appointed during 8 years of Osama Obama,8 years of BillyBob and 4 years of that peanut farmer?

12 posted on 05/31/2014 4:54:39 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Rat Party Policy:Lie,Deny,Refuse To Comply)
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To: a fool in paradise

The article makes it sound like there are millions and millions of service members who are sex reassignment candidates.

I would like to see the actual numbers to see how big the tail is that is wagging this dog...


13 posted on 05/31/2014 4:58:02 PM PDT by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: Gunpowder green

Does anyone know, for certainty, that we already have
“transgenders” in the military? Which barracks do they live in?


14 posted on 05/31/2014 5:01:11 PM PDT by WestwardHo
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
SPARTA, an LGBT military organization, includes several hundred transgender members currently serving in uniform.

SPARTANS...what is your profession?

15 posted on 05/31/2014 5:52:43 PM PDT by spokeshave (OMG.......Schadenfreude overload is not covered under Obamacare :-()
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Servicemembers, Partners, and Allies for Respect and Tolerance for All

Except, of course, Christians who run small businesses . . . we take them to court and beat them up!

16 posted on 05/31/2014 6:14:50 PM PDT by madprof98
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Forcing me to affirmatively participate in another person’s delusion will not cure their mental illness.


17 posted on 05/31/2014 6:27:59 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where?)
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18 posted on 05/31/2014 6:30:22 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: molson209

Your kidding. A man can get his penis hacked off, but a baby can’t get a cleft lip repaired?


19 posted on 05/31/2014 6:33:34 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So much for our once powerful military. 6 short Obama years and this is what we’re reduced to now. A all gay all the time military more interested in gay weddings and mutilating genitals.


20 posted on 06/01/2014 12:48:11 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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