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"Diane Lask Is A Liar" <laskisaliar@nowhere.com> wrote in message 
news:Xns9D34831C585A0laskisaliarnowhereco@188.40.43.213...
> "Jennifer Usher" <jennisuzan@gmail.com> wrote in
> news:4b93f204$0$24222$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com:
>
>>
>>
>> "Diane Lask Is A Liar" <laskisaliar@nowhere.com> wrote in message
>> news:Xns9D33814424B37laskisaliarnowhereco@85.214.113.135...
>>> JenniferFlusher <jflusher@imaman.org> wrote in news:hmub3u$2av$1
>>> @news.eternal-september.org:
>>>
>>>> Howard Thomas Usher, known on the internet as Jennifer Usher, likes
>>>> to pretend that he is a person who underwent a sex change in 2006.
>>>> This post will prove that not only did he not have that alleged sex
>>>> change but that it was impossible for him to have obtained one at
>>>> the time.
>>>>
>>>> The background is simple Howard Thomas Usher spends an enormous
>>>> amount of time on the internet telling everyone that he is a "true
>>> transexual"
>>>> who is now a woman. The reality is that since 2004 Howard Thomas has
>>>> been living in the Mission Hotel which is a SRO (single room
>>> occupancy)
>>>> homeless shelter and assisted housing facility for the indigent ant
>>>> mentally ill.  His living conditions and place of residence have all
>>>> been documented endlessly on the web and can easily be googled.
>>>>
>>>> The question is could Howard Thomas have possibly have had a sex
>>> change
>>>> back in 2006?  Let's explore that quickly.
>>>>
>>>> 1. Howard initially said that he moved to San Francisco to get a
>>>> city job because the City had recently had added sex change surgery
>>>> to it's list of approved procedures available through it;s medical
>>>> plans. Howard made a big point of that.  In fact , Howard did not
>>>> end up working for the city at all.  He ended up working for the
>>>> UNiversity
>>> of
>>>> California San Francisco (in a clerical position initially obtained
>>>> through a workfare grant).  UCSF DOES NOT adhere to City standards
>>>> or S.F. medical plans.  UCSF is a STATE position - not a city
>>>> position at all.
>>>
>>> I never seen Jennifer make such a statement.  Of course, anyone who
>>> is a transsexual is going to try for a city job, but that is not why
>>> she moved here.
>>
>> No, that is not why I moved here.  I looked into it, but there was
>> nothing I was really qualified for.  And given what the mayor has been
>> doing of late, I am kind of glad I didn't get one.
>>
>>>> 2. UCSF does NOT offer any plans that specifically cover sex change
>>>> surgery.  I was given a list of medical plans that UCSF employees
>>>> can obtain they are: Kaiser medical, Cigna PPO Medical, and Anthem
>>>> Blue Cross HMO or medical.  NONE of these plans specifically cover
>>>> sex change surgery. A special approval has to be obtained if theu
>>>> will cover it at all.
>>>
>>> Now, this is a flat out lie.  All of the University of California
>>> plans cover SRS.
>>
>> Yes, they all cover it.  I know at least two other people who have had
>> surgery with Kaiser.  And there is also Health Net.  Lask seems to
>> have missed that one.
>>
>>>> 3. ONLY the PPO plans will cover sex change surgery.  According to
>>> what
>>>> my friend showed me the HMPO plans specifically exclude it.  Of the
>>> PPO
>>>> plans that cover it - they only cover roughly 80% of the cost (about
>>>> 30,000 in California) - the patient will have to come up with the
>>> other
>>>> $6000 - remember this as it is important.
>>>
>>>
>>> Another outright lie.  Lask is making this stuff up.  Here is a link
>>> to a page that provides the true information about what the
>>> University of California (including UCSF) offers in the way of
>>> surgery for, as they put it, "transgender people."
>>
>> Yes, I don't know of anyone who would have told Lask this stuff.  I
>> think with Blue Cross you might end up paying out about $1,000 out of
>> pocket, but for most of the plans, it is much less.
>>
>>> http://www.uclgbtia.org/transhealthupdate.html
>>>
>>> If I am not mistaken, and I could be, Jennifer has Kaiser.
>>
>> Yes, even though it is not really anyone's business, I have Kaiser.
>>
>>>> 4. Howard Thomas was HOMELESS and penniless and jobless when he came
>>> to
>>>> San Francisco.  He stayed in a variety of men's homeless shelters
>>>> before being assigned to the Mission Hotel SRO for housing.  He
>>>> claims to have has sex change surgery in California AFTER only one
>>>> year at his UCSF job which only paid less than $2000 a month at the
>>>> time of hire.  How could a homeless man living in one of the highest
>>>> cost
>>>>  States in the U.S.  and taking home only about $350 a week gross
>>>> while paying $500 a month for his sheltered housing possibly save up
>>>> $6000 in one year ?   It's really impossible.
>>>
>>> No, she would have paid $250 out of pocket for the surgery,  Asi I
>>> said, I think she has Kaiser.  I know for sure she does not have Blue
>>> Cross because I remember her saying it would insane to have that
>>> coverage because of the high co-pays.  And the rest of this is just
>>> figments of Lask's imagination. There are no "men's shelters" in San
>>> Francisco.  All of them, except "A Woman's Place" admit both men and
>>> women.  Jennifer was in a female shelter the entire time she was
>>> here.  It is illegal to discriminate in the manner that Lask
>>> suggests.
>>
>> Lask has never been known for being truthful.  No, I never stayed in a
>> "men's shelter."  There was, for a time, a place called "A Man's
>> Place," but it closed.  And no, I never stayed there.  I was in the
>> women's section of two shelters, The Episcopal Sanctuary, and Next
>> Door.
>>
>>>> 5. Howard Thomas Usher weighs over 300 pounds - his picture can be
>>>> easily googled.  He is ginormous.  Anyone who has actually HAD
>>>> gender change surgery knows that surgeons will NOT operate on the
>>>> morbidly obese for this procedure.  They demand that you get down to
>>>> a reasonably safe weight and the gender boards are full of people
>>>> (fat people) with complaints about this.  How did Howard Thomas
>>>> possibly become the exception?
>>>
>>> I know Jennifer, and while is is overweight (who isn't these days)
>>> she is not, and never has been 300 pounds,  At the time she had her
>>> surgery, she had lost quite a bit of weight.  Her job at that time
>>> required a lot of walking.
>>
>> Nope, I have never weighed 300 pounds, and certainly not over that.
>> At the time of my surgery I was about 200 pounds.  Once again, Lask is
>> just making stuff up.
>>
>>>> 6. Who took care of Howard Thomas while he was recovering from his
>>>> fictional surgery?  Howard lives in a SINGLE ROOM assisted facility
>>>> with NO kitchen and NO individual bathroom.  How did he get his
>>>> meals? How did he make it down the hall for 2 weeks to the communal
>>>> bathroom stalls?  Howard had no friends or contacts in SF at the
>>>> time to take care of him.  How did he possibly eat or get to the
>>>> bathroom during his first week out of the hospital?
>>>
>>> Again, a load of crap.  First off, Jennifer has a number of friends,
>>> including me.  One of them, a natal female named Joy, stayed with her
>>> most of the time she was in the hospital, and helped her after she
>>> got out.  Also, Jennifer was able to get a statement from her doctor
>>> that got her a private bathroom.  Really, Diane, you can do better
>>> than this,
>>
>> Yes, Joy was a big help.  And yes, the day before my surgery I got a
>> private bath.  And while I don't have a kitchen as such, Diane knows
>> that I have the means to prepare food.  I have a microwave, and some
>> other ways.  Of course, we now have a kitchen area downstairs, so even
>> that claim is bogus now.
>>
>>>> The conclusion is obvious - that Howard Thomas' sex change is as big
>>>> a fraud as his "nursing school" turned out to be or his "great room
>>>> in San Francisco" turned out to be.
>>>
>>> Jennifer did take classes in nursing at City College.  And her room,
>>> while small, is quite decent.
>>
>> Lask just makes stuff up.
>>
>>>> His protestations against transgendered people are merely the
>>>> product of a very diseased mind rallying against the truth of his
>>>> own horrid situation.  The Anti-gay California State legislator from
>>>> Fresno who was just  this week arrested after getting drunk in  Gay
>>>> bar?  - Same exact thing.  Except the  legislator had a decent job
>>>> whereas Howard lives in a decrepit homeless shelter.
>>>
>>> I don't agree with all that Jennifer says about transgender, but she
>>> has a right to her opinions.  And sorry, but Jennifer has a very good
>>> job. Lask, the last I remember, is quite unemployed,
>>
>> Yes, I have a good job, I don't live in a homeless shelter (I pay
>> rent, which I believe Lask admitted above, so obviously it is not a
>> shelter).  I have said before, where I live is rent controlled, and I
>> have what I need. Why should I pay twice as much?  To impress some
>> loser like Lask?  I don't think so.
>>
>>>> Howard Thomas Usher never had sex change surgery and is still a
>>>> mentally disabled man.
>>>
>>> It would appear, from what Ruby has said, that this is actually true
>>> about Diane, not Jennifer.
>>
>> I have always accepted that Lask had surgery, though I do know it was
>> botched.
>>
>> Now, I am wondering who you are?  I have an idea, but I'm not sure.
>
> Ask me tomorrow, at work.  I'll give you a hint.  I met Lask about the
> same time you did.  I can't really say anything more.  I think you now
> why.

Well, that hint would narrow it down to two people.  But I know one of them 
would never bother here.  I'll see you tomorrow.