In spite of what these confused individuals claim, this IS elective surgery, so it is not discrimination to refuse them taxpayer-funded surgery, since no one else can obtain Medicaid-funded elective surgery.
If they get a Democrat judge, though, they will win, a loss for taxpayers.
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What should and shouldn’t be covered under government-sponsored healthcare has long been a subject of debate in many parts of the United States. Many states simply set their own limits (or don’t set any at all), changing their laws as they discover a need, while others carved out clear policies concerning what was and wasn’t covered by state healthcare.
One state the set its own clear regulations is the state of Wisconsin. One of the limits that the state set on Medicaid distributed through the state is that it should not cover elective surgeries and treatments. Now, two transgender Wisconsin residents have filed a federal lawsuit, claiming that the state’s refusal to pay for their gender reassignment surgeries is discrimination.
They’re hoping to force Wisconsin’s Medicaid program, it’s taxpayers, to pay for their reassignment surgeries and “damages.”
Cody Flack is a 30-year-old woman who now ‘identifies’ as a man, and Sara Ann Makenzie is a 41-year-old man who now identifies as a woman.
The pair, angry that the state will not pay for their transitional procedures, is challenging a 1997 Wisconsin regulation that holds “transsexual surgery” medically unnecessary, and therefore not a procedure eligible for Medicaid coverage.
Flack and Makenzie claim that they suffer from “gender dysphoria,” a mental health illness classified in the DSM-5, which basically makes the sufferer feel like they don’t belong in their body and would rather be the opposite sex.
Furthermore, the pair claim that there is no scientific basis for Wisconsin’s decision to deny gender reassignment, or the choice to classify it as an elective surgery, which is completely false.
They say that there is a “strong medical consensus” that the best treatment for the mental health condition known as ‘gender dysphoria’ is sex reassignment surgery and hormone treatments.
The attorneys acting on behalf of the pair claim that Medicaid operates with federal funds, but is operated by the state government.
They say denying the pair services ‘that they desire’ amounts to discrimination based on gender identity.
https://conservativedailypost.com/tr...nment-surgery/
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"Gender identity," a bull**** phrase for a mental illness.
05-01-2018, 08:55 AM
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