Kevyn wrote:
A federal appellate court in Richmond became the first in the country to rule that state health-care plans must pay for gender-affirming surgeries, a major win for transgender rights amid a nationwide wave of anti-trans activism and legislation.
The decision came from a set of cases out of North Carolina and West Virginia, where state officials argued that their policies were based on cost concerns rather than bias. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit rejected that argument, saying the plans were discriminating against trans people in need of treatment.
Judge Roger L. Gregory, an appointee of President Clinton, wrote for the majority that the restrictions were “obviously discriminatory” based on both sex and gender.
“In this case, discriminating on the basis of diagnosis is discriminating on the basis of gender identity and sex,” Gregory wrote, because “gender dysphoria is so intimately related to transgender status as to be virtually indistinguishable from it.”
The majority ruled that West Virginia’s policy also violated the Affordable Care Act’s anti-discrimination provision, a finding that has broad implications for other states’ Medicaid programs.
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So the state has to pay it some mental case wants his nuts cut off but they won't pay for teeth implants that would let someone like me get the proper nutritional diet to keep me healthy my. Are they going to pay for the dresses for the drag queens story hour at the library? And what about breast implants for straight women? Or hair implants for bald men?
Will they buy them bullets for their guns when they decide to go on a shooting rampage?
This country has gotten so far from wholesome it's scary.