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Should tax dollars be used for gender reassignment surgery?

Should tax dollars be used for gender reassignment surgeries

  • Yeah

    Votes: 11 20.0%
  • No

    Votes: 44 80.0%

  • Total voters
    55
See, and that's the biggest reason why I don't support paying for the surgery, but paying for therapy. The issues go far deeper than physical anatomy, and like you say, the evidence that it doesn't actually solve anything is solid.
That's not even true though. The fact that this is being used falsely speaks volumes about the side that includes it in their arguments.
 
You have expressed your feelings as if they were fact. What's the difference between augmentation mammoplasty in a man or a woman if the woman just wants bigger ones and a man wants totally fake ones? They are both elective surgeries and should be paid for by the individual, not the public.

It's called context, and rightists love to perpetually ignore it to fallaciously argue points. The difference is circumstance, context, reason, etc. This isn't hard, and you know it. Cut out the ingenuity. It's quite obvious that a logical person who is emotionally sound would support a mammoplasty that lowers ridiculously high, documentable distress via GDD but not elective surgery on a person who doesn't have a mental disorder that would be alleviated by such. There is constantly this false dilemma being created by those who deliberately ignore context to further an unsound argument.
 
No, it's really not self explanatory. Why don't you explain?



Why not?




There is hardcore scientific proof. And if "forcing people to have their tax money go into such a thing" is such a high bar, why don't members of the public who are anti-war get to veto military spending? How is that different from funding medical treatments?



The illness doesn't come from being different. It comes from having to repress that difference. It's the same way that parents sometimes force left-handed children to become right-handed. It makes them more "normal", but it actually does lasting damage to their minds. It isn't being "abnormal" that creates a problem, it's suppressing that difference.



No facial reconstruction surgery for car crash victims, either? That's elective cosmetic surgery.


It's not the role of government to pay for that.
 
Self explanatory. Do you think the government should pay, or help pay, or subsidize insurance companies, or in any other way funnel money toward assisting people to undergo gender reassignment surgeries?

If so, to what extent?

No, neither should the government pay for elective cosmetic surgery and verious other forms of medical overconsumption.
 
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