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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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>> Listen, I feel for you and all, being born into the wrong body and all, 
>> and you're welcome to cut off your dick, have a prosthetic vagina drilled 
>> and all the hormone cocktails you can choke down, I just don't 
>> particularly feel like paying for it. And no, I'm not as callous as I 
>> sound.
>> I don't expect you to pay for my food, shelter or heat either, and those 
>> are pretty important to my wellbeing as well.
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> Okay, for the record, you don't have to worry about paying for it.  It is 
> covered by my health insurance, not by taxpayer money.  That was some 
> idiot troll's attempt at starting a flame war.  But, it is a medically 
> necessary procedure.  I honestly would urge you to learn something about 
> the subject, and no, reading troll posts on Usenet and watching Jerry 
> Springer don't count.


I actually know plenty about it --probably more than most "laypeople" but, 
granted, less than you, for obvious reasons.
I have never bashed the actual procedure or questioned that gender identity 
disorder is a very real issue. I'm in no position to state whether surgery 
is medically necessary or not. Probably more psychologically necessary, but 
let's not get started. You came on a little snippy and I responded in kind. 
OK? I certainly never intended to mock you, your situation, or the issue as 
a whole.

And --also for the record--this thread came my when it was cross-posted to 
alt.gossip.celebrities (shallow twit that I am), and the issue at hand, as 
far as I could tell, was whether or not taxpayers should be footing the 
bill, and I said no. I admittedly didn't go through the archives to research 
the provenance of this issue but this *is* a newsgroup. NewsgroupS, as it 
turns out.

And because this is coming from AGC and to end this on a light-ish note, I 
once shared a taxi with Dr. Renee Richards during a snowstorm (her office 
was pretty close to where I worked at the time).

And I don't watch Jerry Springer.