Transgenders SUE Wisconsin For Refusing To Pay For “Sex Reassignment” Surgery With Taxpayer Money

It’s unconstitutional not to pay for someone to chop their genitals off.

That’s this lawsuit in a nutshell (no nut pun intended.)

Two transgender people from Wisconsin are suing the state because they want their “gender reassignment” surgery paid for.

According to BPR:

Two Wisconsin residents are suing the state because their gender reassignment surgeries will not be paid for under Wisconsin’s Medicaid program.

The two transgender residents filed a federal lawsuit against the state claiming the exclusion is unconstitutional, according to an Associated Press report.

Yeeeeeah… I’m having a hard time with that.

They’re saying the constitution doesn’t allow for discrimination based on gender.

Well… Wisconsin isn’t paying for ANYONE to have their genitals mutilated, so it’s not really gender-based discrimination, is it?

Cody Flack, a 30-year-old transgender man, and Sara Makenzie, a 41-year-old transgender woman, filed the lawsuit which challenges the exclusion of the surgery from coverage. Wisconsin is one of 10 states that prohibit Medicaid funding of sex reassignment surgery.

“There is no medical or scientific support for Wisconsin’s contention that transition-related health care for transgender people with gender dysphoria is ‘medically unnecessary,’” the lawsuit states. “To the contrary, there is a strong consensus among medical and mental health professionals that gender-confirming surgical procedures and hormonal treatments are the only safe and effective medical treatments for the gender dysphoria experienced by many transgender people.”

There is also plenty of scientific evidence that suicide rates are the SAME between pre-op and post-op transgendered individuals.

So NO… this is not a “safe and effective medical treatments for gender dysphoria.” The underlying mental condition has not been treated. You don’t cure anorexia by getting liposuction.

The plaintiffs have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria which is a conflict of a person’s gender identity and their biological sex. Flack and Makenzie sought gender reassignment surgery, following other gender transitions like hormone therapy, at the recommendation of their doctors to “alleviate their ongoing symptoms of gender dysphoria.”

The two cannot afford the surgery out-of-pocket and, as they depend on federal benefits for needs like health care, came up against the Wisconsin state regulation which “expressly prohibits Wisconsin Medicaid coverage for ‘transsexual surgery’ or ‘drugs, including hormone therapy, associated with transsexual surgery or medically unnecessary alterations of sexual anatomy or characteristics.”

The attorneys contend the exclusion is a violation of the Affordable Care Act’s prohibition on discrimination based on gender identity, the Medicaid Act and the due process guarantee of the 14th Amendment, the AP reported.

“I am bringing this lawsuit to get the medical care I need to finally feel like myself, on the inside and the outside,” Flack, who began his gender transition to male at 18, said. According to the lawsuit, he has experienced “profound depression and emotional distress” apparently because he is prevented from undergoing the surgery.

I think gender dysphoria is a horrifically sad disorder. I can’t IMAGINE what these people must be going through…

I also don’t understand how ENABLING a psychological disorder has somehow become the treatment for it.

As I said, we don’t treat anorexics who think they’re fat with liposuction or diets.

We don’t agree with paranoid schizophrenics that their delusions are real. (Even though they FEEL that they are real.)

I think our SJW society is truly HARMING these people by using them as pawns of their agenda. They’re not getting the treatment they need… they’re being mutilated.

As I mentioned… things don’t magically get “better” for them once they manage to have their genitals cut off and reshaped.

Makenzie, who has been living as a woman since 2012, has been suicidal and “engaged in self-harming behaviors, including cutting in her genital area,” according to the lawsuit.

“No one should have to struggle just to be who they are,” she said.

Makenzie is absolutely right. Makenzie obviously has a SERIOUS MENTAL HEALTH ISSUE that needs treatment… because Makenzie struggles SO much that she mutilates her body.

She should get help feeling comfortable with who she IS.

…that doesn’t mean MUTILATING who she is to become SOMEONE ELSE.

How does this not register with people?

Makenzie and Flack are asking the judge to rule that the gender reassignment surgery exclusion from coverage is discriminatory and unconstitutional and want the state to be prevented from enforcing it. They are seeking compensation for “economic and non-economic injuries arising from being denied medically necessary health care coverage.”

Dr. Ilana Addis, an ob-gyn who has worked with transgender patients and is chief of staff at Banner University Medical in Phoenix, Ariz., said she is “regularly frustrated when a bureaucrat or politician tells me how to practice medicine,” in an op-ed published by The Hill on Tuesday.

“As a specialist in female pelvic surgery and reproductive medicine, I am exceedingly qualified to offer my male patients many of the services and procedures they need to continue their transition,” she wrote. “Asking them to prove that this care is medically necessary and worthy of payment is not just offensive and discriminatory but also heartless and inhumane.”

I think what this woman is doing is “heartless and inhumane.”

WE HAVE GIVEN UP ON HELPING THESE PEOPLE FEEL “COMFORTABLE IN THEIR OWN SKIN” BECAUSE OF A RADICAL POLITICAL AGENDA.

Should that not be the goal? Help these people ACCEPT and LOVE themselves for who they ACTUALLY are?!

While the debate rages over the treatment and the medical options available for those with gender dysphoria, and their medical necessity, many Twitter users argue that taxpayers should not be forced to foot the bill.

“Necessary treatment” includes things like kidney transplants, blood transfusions, and chemotherapy, not breast implants and genital mutilation. #WordsMeanThings https://t.co/V1PzfUGwvP

— Kaeley Triller (@KaeleyT) April 30, 2018

It absolutely infuriates me that taxpayers are footing the bill for these narcissists cosmetic surgeries, but most insurance doesn’t cover eyeglasses. Who needs to see? But if they want their genitals mutilated? Sure, that’s covered.

— NoMoreNiceMom (@Momhitpeaktrans) May 1, 2018

Wow….just, WOW!

How effing entitled do these people think they are. It’s a CHOICE. Choice surgery equals ELECTIVE surgery. Elective surgery equals pay for it your own damn self or don’t get it done. pic.twitter.com/sB3xqQRsTr

— DeplorablAnn🇺🇸Molon Labe #2A🇺🇸 (@DeplorablAnnJoy) May 1, 2018

It is not harsh at all.
If you want to change yourself medically,
Pay for it yourself.

We all want things we can’t afford in life.
We don’t all sue the state to buy them for us.

— DeplorablAnn🇺🇸Molon Labe #2A🇺🇸 (@DeplorablAnnJoy) May 1, 2018

It’s called get a job & pay for it yourself.

— Irene 😎 (@Irenebyrd45) May 1, 2018

Why would government cover this surgery when there are millions of people without healthcare at all. So everyone else should just deal no health insurance/money to pay for care but they will pay for sex changes? This makes no sense

— Alyx Knapp (@alyxknapp) May 1, 2018

BINGO.