Re: Should taxpayers be paying for sex change operations?

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From: Doomella
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 18:46

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"Jennifer Usher" <jennisuzan@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> "Doomella" <doomella@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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>> 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.


It's an A-N-A-L-O-G-Y. And you don't know how profoundly some people want to 
be blond.

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