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Article #172Re: Should taxpayers be paying for sex change operations?
From: Jennifer Usher
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 16:39
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 16:39
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"Doomella" <doomella@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:_DDqf.6289$u36.2476@trndny01... > No, taxpayers should not be paying for sex-change operations. > > I'm sure it's miserable to feel you were born into the wrong gender, but > come on. What will stop us from having to foot the bill for people who > feel they should have been born blonde, straight-haired or green-eyed? > What about lipo for heavy people who feel that their destiny was to be > ultra thin? Bald men who feel they should have cascades of Fabio-esque > hair in order to be psychologically intact? To equate transsexualism, which is recognized as a medical condition, with something like hair color, shows an serious lack of understanding. We are talking about something that is far more profound than the things you compare it to. -- Jennifer Usher
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