Ignorant Democrats. Most of them ignore all the medical evidence supporting the effectiveness of sex reassignment surgery, cite a few studies that appear on the surface to support their points, and then complain when coverage starts, helping more trans people get the health care we need, to lower our suicide rates (you attempt suicide much less after you've had the surgery) and allow us to live in confirmation with our minds, with possible medium- and long-term benefits for such investment (as found by the California Department of Insurance a couple years ago).
Of course, they'll all ignore that. And they'll be all bipartisagism [sic] with the Republicans, appearing reasonable on the surface (but being completely unreasonable below the surface); they'll react to Medicare's opening of coverage by joining with the GOP in enacting a federal law banning the use of all federal funds for sex reassignment surgery, which would set us back, and not just with Medicare. It would also ban it in California's and D.C.'s Medicaid, and in the plans sold on the exchanges in 5 or 6 states. We would be right back where we started.
And the Democrats will be cheering their compromise, oh so reasonable concessions, as trans people, who were just starting to get a status equal to that in other western countries, fall back into despair.
f**k you, Democrats.
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