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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.

> 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.

> 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."

http://www.uclgbtia.org/transhealthupdate.html

If I am not mistaken, and I could be, Jennifer has 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. 

> 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.

> 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,

> 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.

> 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,

> 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.