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Originally Posted by blueash
Imagine waking one morning to find you had the wrong sex organs. Imagine the distress and even some revulsion, and the immense yearning to have the correct body parts back where they belong. And waking every day of your life with this wrongness, this distress, the self rejection and confusion. And imagine that it can be partially fixed which will involve incredible personal psychological stress and multiple surgeries and drugs. Imagine that your friends may turn against you, your employer fire you, your family reject you. But you have the wrong genitalia and want it made right. Compassion anyone? Taking time to understand the problem from a bit outside your own experience and preconceived notions, please?
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Yes. Definitely, the gender-conflicted people need and deserve compassion.
And imagine wanting your sex organs amputated and internally disconnected and removed. Imagine wanting your ears or nose cut off or eyes taken out, and having your ear canals or nasal or eye openings surgically closed up. Should Medicare and Medicaid pay for that kind of self mutilation too?
Should Medicare and Medicaid provide and pay for a service dog and pay for an assisted living facility for the person who purposely had their eyes removed and is now blind?
Or should Medicaid and SSI pay tuition at a school for the deaf for a teenager "who woke up one morning to find he had the wrong ears" and had them and the canals removed and sewn shut?
Are there to be no boundaries to what individuals demand that taxpayers pay for, when it's the individual's choice to maim themselves as a way of making themselves happy?