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Ethics and Public Policy Center ^ | April 28, 2025 | staff

[Texan5]

Oh-I did have cataracts removed several years ago-lighter-colored eyes-mine are gray/green-I’m told are more prone to that. I used the opportunity to make a deal on having laser vision correction done at the same time, which made it reasonable enough for me to pay out of pocket-I’d wanted that for many years and I’m still thrilled to be rid of the glasses/contacts I’d been wearing since age 18...

[Red6]

This is simply my personal opinion albeit others hold it as well and I didn't come up with this.

We simply outlive our designed functional life expectancy, our natural life expectancy.

If you went far back in time, many, even most of the diseases that cost the health care system today would be extremely uncommon, since people simply die before these medical issues ever arise. You may not believe this, but even until the late 1800s people simply didn't live much past 40 (the average person): https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/wpwqal/average_life_expectancy_in_the_united_states_from/#lightbox

At age 45, Oetzy (preserved in ice) was extremely old: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96tzi

Think of it like this: If people died between 40 - 45, how many of these diseases would we really have: orthopedics, cardiology, dental, nephrology, oncology, ophthalmology...

Different people will be confronted with different issues as they age, but the overwhelming majority will encounter problems.

The human is a biochemical and mechanical machine, and like other machines, eventually begins to break down. Maybe some day folks figure out what aging is and how to really stop or even reverse it. But for the time being, our bodies simply begin a process of slow decomposition starting at 25 (that early) and as we age it accelerates.

This can be seen with teeth (wear out even if you do everything right, the enamel wear down), cataracts (even if you do everything right), the joint problems or osteoporosis which develops with age (for many people, even if they do everything right), and a plethora of other geriatric diseases.

For most people, there needs to be medical intervention of some sort, in order to extend or improve the quality of life, and very few make it to 80 and never have any sort of issue that required some sort of intervention.

Different people need different things in order to extend or improve their quality of life, HRT is simply one tool which addresses some of the issues some people have.

HRT is a dirty term for some folks. That should not be the case. It would be no different that putting someone down for any other age related illness. HRT is not covered by many insurances, even though these same insurances have no problem giving the same hormones in much higher doses to the opposite sex as part of a treatment for “gender dysphoria.” A woman that has low estrogen levels has to pay out of pocket for her sex hormone when old, and lower levels have all sort of bad side effects for her; but a perfectly healthy male who simply “feels” he's suffering from “gender dysphoria” (made up term that is supposed to sound medical and scientific), can get those at much higher doses paid for as part of their MTF transition treatment by almost every insurance. There is something wrong with that.