Dr. Eowyn posted: "Transgenders are people who identify with a gender
other than their biological sex that, according to transgenders, they were
"assigned" at birth. The cover for the June 9, 2014 issue of Time magazine,
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<http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/author/eowyn2/> Transgender surgery now
covered by bankrupt Medicare
<http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2014/06/02/transgender-surgery-now-covered-by-bankrupt-medicare/>
by
Dr. Eowyn <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/author/eowyn2/>
Transgenders are people who identify with a gender other than their
biological sex that, according to transgenders, they were "assigned" at
birth.
The cover for the June 9, 2014 issue of *Time* magazine, sporting a pic of
transgender "Orange Is the New Black" actor Laverne Cox, proclaims:
*The Transgender Tipping Point: America's Next Civil Rights Frontier*
[image: Time transgender cover]
<https://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/time-transgender-cover.png>
When I first saw the *Time* cover, I was quite baffled. Don't transgenders
in the United States already have the same civil rights as the rest of us?
What civil rights are denied to transgenders? Are they excluded from the
guarantees and protections of the U.S. Constitution?
How naïve of me.
In her *Time* cover story, Katy Steinmetz writes
<http://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender/2014/05/29/laverne-cox-and-transgender-tipping-point-cover-time>
that transgenders "are emerging from the margins to fight for an equal
place in society" and that "trans people live in a world largely built on a
fixed and binary definition of gender. In many places, they are unwelcome
in the men’s bathroom and the women’s. The effect is a constant reminder
that they don’t belong."
Blah. Blah. Blah.
It turns out transgenders' "next civil rights frontier" is all about money,
i.e., money from *your *pocket into theirs.
*On May 30, 2014, Obama the POS ended a 33-year ban on Medicare coverage
for gender reassignment surgery.*
*Washington Post*
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/ban-lifted-on-medicare-coverage-for-sex-change-surgery/2014/05/30/28bcd122-e818-11e3-a86b-362fd5443d19_story.html>
reporter Ariana Cha calls the lifting of the 1981 ban "a major victory for
transgender rights and a decision that is likely to put pressure on more
insurers to provide coverage for such services."
Gosh, silly me! I never knew it's a civil "right" not only to have a
"gender reassignment" surgery, but to have other people pay for chopping
off one's penis and gouging out a wound as a pretend vagina.
The May 30 ruling by a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) board
was in response to a lawsuit filed last year by the ACLU, Gay & Lesbian
Advocates & Defenders, and the National Center for Lesbian Rights, on
behalf of *Denee Mallon, 74*, a transgender woman and army veteran from
Albuquerque.
Obama administration officials originally had sought to overturn the ban in
2013, but the attempt prompted a backlash among social conservatives and
religious groups who oppose taxpayer funding for such procedures. Now, HHS
says medical studies published over the past three decades showed that the
grounds for exclusion of coverage are “not reasonable” anymore and lifted
the ban.
Although Medicare coverage is only for people 65 and older, and the
transgender population makes up only about 0.3% of the U.S. adult
population, private insurance plans often take their cues from Medicare on
what should be considered a medically necessary covered treatment. As a
result, the ruling is likely to open up more options for transgender
individuals.
The ruling does not (yet) apply to Medicaid, the health program
administered by states for low-income individuals and families.
Even before the federal government's lifting of the ban, California,
Colorado, Connecticut, Oregon and Vermont already affirmed the idea that
transition care for transgender individuals should be considered an
essential part of medical coverage. In February, D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray
(D) said the city would recognize gender dysphoria as a medical condition —
effectively forcing insurers to cover gender-reassignment surgery.
Jamison Green, president of the World Professional Association for
Transgender Health, a nonprofit "educational" group that works with
doctors, said that while the March 30th ruling was a step in the right
direction in ending discrimination in insurance coverage, *there is still
more work to be done. *He explained, for example, that some transgender men
have had trouble getting coverage for mammograms or hysterectomies when
they developed fibroids or even cancer.
All of which means the cost of the "gender reassignment" surgery is just
the beginning because of a myriad of post-surgery "upkeep," like life-time
hormonal treatments that, no doubt, will also be paid for by Medicare and
private medical insurers.
Remember this pic for FOTM's 73rd Caption Contest
<http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2014/05/13/defense-scty-hagel-says-us-military-may-admit-transexuals-so-lets-have-another-caption-contest/>
?
[image: Harald Glööckler and Amanda Lepore]
<http://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/harald-glc3b6c3b6ckler-and-amanda-lepore.jpg>
Seated on the right is the transgender named Amanda Lepore
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Lepore>. Born Armand Lepore and
genetically a male, 46-year-old Lepore is a transgender model, "nightlife
and fashion icon, performance artist and recording artist."
Lepore
<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2543449/Ive-got-expensive-body-earth-Celebrated-transsexual-party-goer-speaks-painful-transformation-including-breaking-lower-ribs-look-thinner.html>
said "her" sex change from male to female at age 19 was the most painful
procedure "she’s" had done: "It didn’t hurt when I got it done at the
hospital. But they give you a dilator as part of the healing process, which
you have to keep in for extended periods of time to stretch the vaginal
opening. It felt like a knife. It was the most painful thing I had ever
experienced."
In an interview with a fawning reporter for the online magazine XoJane
<http://www.xojane.com/beauty/xojane-amanda-lepore-interview-if-i-didnt-take-hormones-id-be-extremely-self-destructi>,
one of the top 10 "lifestyle" websites for women, Lepore enumerated her
post-op upkeep, including:
- "Perpetual hormones".
- Three breast augmentations "over the years" to acquire "that Jessica
Rabbit thing."
- Buttock implants.
- Getting her bottom ribs broken for a smaller waist.
- Dermatology with a dermatologist/plastic surgeon uptown named Dr.
Warfel.
- Rophynol <http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Rophynol>
"once in a while" because it's "painful to have sex." Rophynol, popularly
known as a date rape drug, is a powerful benzodiazepine, ± 10-fold more
potent than Valium, which is illegal in the US but is used elsewhere as a
hypnotic and in anesthesia. Lepore explains *[Language Warning!]*: "I
wasn’t a *pig* or anything where I would be fucking every five minutes,
but once in a while there would be a guy that I couldn’t resist -- and I
would take a rohypnol and it would work! But since then I’ve learned to
dilate and stretch my pussy and I know how to have really good sex. Oh
yeah. Premarin vaginal cream <http://www.premarinvaginalcream.com/>.
It’s a whole process. Like I said, it was really painful for me to have
sex, especially if the guy was really well endowed, so a transsexual friend
of mine said that when you get up in the morning, use a numbing cream and
then put a small dildo in your pussy in a girdle! And then have breakfast
and clean your house and whatever, and then you stretch it with a bigger
one and then use Premarin vaginal cream. This all makes the pussy walls
stretch like a natural woman’s."
Beneath the façade, the life of a post-op transgender is a life of
ingesting never-ending very-powerful hormones and painkillers, the side
effects of which are not publicized.
And although the surgery is called "gender reassignment," in truth the
surgery does no such thing. After all the torturous body mutilations --
excising the penis or breasts; gouging a pretend-vagina that must be
"dilated" until the wound eventually scars over; shaving off the Adam's
Apple -- the transgender's body is still genetically and chromosomally what
God had made.
That is why psychiatrist Joseph Berger
<http://www.hakirah.org/Vol%2012%20Berger.pdf>, M.D., board certified as a
specialist by both the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and the
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, has stated there is no
scientific basis for transgender.
In a statement against the Canadian federal government's Bill C-279
(popularly known as the "bathroom bill") giving special protection to
transgenders, Dr. Berger stated
<http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/psychiatry-expert-scientifically-there-is-no-such-thing-as-transgender/>
that from a medical and scientific perspective there is no such thing as a
"transgendered" person, and that terms such as “gender expression” and
“gender identity" used in the bill are at the very least ambiguous, and are
more an emotional appeal than a statement of objective scientific fact.
"I have read the brief put forward by those advocating special rights, and
I find nothing of scientific value in it," Dr. Berger said in his
statement. "Words and phrases, such as 'the inner space,' are used that
have no objective scientific basis. There seems to me to be no medical or
scientific reason to grant any special rights or considerations to people
who are unhappy with the sex they were born into, or to people who wish to
dress in the clothes of the opposite sex. The so-called ‘confusion’ about
their sexuality that a teenager or adult has is purely psychological. As a
psychiatrist, I see no reason for people who identify themselves in these
ways to have any rights or privileges different from everyone else in
Canada."
In other words, transgenderism is a psychological, not biological,
disorder, which would explain why gender dysphoria fluctuates over time.
Toronto specialist Ken Zucker
<http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90229789>, who
opposes the use of sex change therapies, claims that only about 12% of boys
and girls with gender dysphoria will still have persistent dysphoria as
adults.
This fact alone should lead even the most committed supporters of early
intervention to err strongly on the side of caution.
H/t FOTM's Lola
*~Eowyn*
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