"BTW, it's not a "disease" -" #754
Precisely my intended point.
& thus all the weaker the argument that the People should $pay.
It may belong in the category "elective procedure", if to qualify for that category the treated condition is not organically life-threatening.
" the American Psychiatric Association doesn't even classify it at a disorder. Roughly 40% of trans youth attempt suicide (vs 4% for all teens). However, if those youths receive parental acceptance and support, aren't on the receiving end of transphobic discrimination and bullying, and have ID that corresponds to the gender they present as, the suicide rate drops to more normal levels.
On a related note, roughly 40% of homeless youths are members of the LGBT community. Some were thrown out and others left on their own because the situation "at home" was intolerable." #754
I'm not merely conservative politically. I'm also conservative financially, economically. I live debt-free, no mortgage, no car loan, etc.
Part of my reservation about this, "treatment" as it exists in 2025 was not available a century ago, or in the many centuries before.
Yet I doubt all those affected were suicide casualties.
I consider gender differentiating characteristics overlapping bell-curves.
Example: upper body strength: I believe while men are generally regarded superior by this parameter, the most muscular woman is probably stronger than the least muscular man. Overlapping bell-curves.
Similar story for deep voice, etc.
May be worth contextualizing today's modern surgical / biochemical options with the lives lived by similar mismatches in previous centuries.
That may seem dismissive, if not contemptuous, hypocritical. I suspect not. I'm a bald guy. I'm aware there are treatment options for me.
I've never seriously considered any of them, despite being aware of the potential. I've seen my friends gasp seeing me in a Halloween wig, a different look.
I could have gone with the horseshoe look. Not my style. I just embraced it as a fashion, and cut it short enough to act like stubble, so in a stout breeze my hat says on like velcro.
"If they pay for erectile disfunction treatments (Viagra etc) as well as fertility treatments why should this be any different?" S2 #754
Because reproduction (>2.2 ZPG) is essential to the nation, falling birth rates a problem in the U.S. & beyond. If you need a chuckle, check out what Trump has in mind to spur U.S. population growth.
I must confess my ignorance here.
I'm guessing:
a) it has not been ever thus.
b) If not, why not? Perhaps because the tradition was to categorize a newborn by apparent genital configuration at birth. Right?
c) So now that this standard is no longer considered reliable, now that society has updated, there's a need for standards to also update, to keep pace. Right?
Should we acknowledge the irony? The trans cause the problem, and then complain about the consequences?