TFW you are incapable of considering other human beings as anything besides sexual playthings.
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The question is how many adults would want a surgery that would result in 25% or 50% or 75% less sexual pleasure and ecstasy to 100% no sexual pleasure and ecstasy at all for a life time? The thing is parents and the medical system should not be allowed by law to make that decision for a minor because how many of them will regret such a surgery when they become an adult? I WOULD, AND HOW.
Answer, how many adults would give up their orgasms for a surgery?
In pretty much every country where public health insurance funds GRS, you don't just go in and have the chop on a whim. There are standards of pyschological evaluation that need to be met and it's a long process before you get approved for any kind of surgery. It also means that if you do get surgery secretly during a vacation to Thailand without proper approval, it's going to be on you.
And in a way, having properly approved surgery paid for by health insurance makes more sense to begin with, because you are really being helped to sort out how deep your gender dysphoria really runs. And only then are you able to get surgery, if medical experts conclude that that is the most advisable course of action in an individual patient's case.
I have no problem at all with the knowledge that some of the health insurance that goes off my salary every month is used to help patients sort all that out, and get surgery if needed.
I think when people in the U.S. get in a huff about that way of thinking, it has to do with the fact that there is still a strong cultural undercurrent in the U.S. of the idea that anything to do with LGBTQ is somehow a "lifestlye choice". Just like the idea that you "choose to be gay" just can't be weeded out entirely. And IMO it just stems from a profound sexual illiteracy in those who think that way.
My monthly health insurance payments don't fund people who think it's a turn on to have their dick turned inside out. They go towards helping people with gender dysphoria. It may not be a terminal illness like cancer, but as somebody who battled with depression in his younger years and was able to sort it out with a therapist that was paid for by health insurance, I think I have a deep enough understanding that there is value in taking mental/emotional issues seriously enough to have therapy thereof paid for by the taxpayer.
read the document. does it say anything about age? no.
this doofus video and the hackney article in it is just meant to stir trouble.
4.238.5 Conditions for Coverage
(a) For a beneficiary to receive coverage for gender affirmation surgery, the following conditions must be met:
(5) Documented informed consent, including knowledge of risks, hospitalizations, post-surgical rehabilitation, and compliance of treatment. For minors under 18 years of age, documented informed consent of a parent(s), legal custodian, or guardian is also required unless the minor is emancipated by court order.