Opinion
How do Australian taxpayers feel about paying for creepy male autogynephiles and faddish teenagers to mutilate and chemically sterilise themselves? It’s bad enough that we already have to fork out for gender-confused loons in the military. Now, activists are pushing for an all-out taxpayer-funded wave of woke conversion therapy.
Gender-affirming procedures such as chest surgery and genital reconfiguration would be subsidised by Medicare under a push to improve mental health and quality of life for transgender people.
How many lies can a mainstream media journalist pack into one sentence? It’s not “chest surgery”, it’s mastectomy. On perfectly healthy teenage girls. And “genital configuration” is more accurately known as castration. And, far from affirming the reality of peoples’ gender, it instead medicalises gender delusion.
As for “improving mental health”, there’s little to no reliable evidence that anything like that occurs. If anything, data shows that people are more likely to commit suicide.
But transgender surgery is a booming business.
The federal health department will consider an application from the Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons that seeks to establish 21 Medicare items for gender-affirming surgeries for people who have gender incongruence, in which a person’s experience of gender does not align with how they were born.
We used to be honest enough to just call that “mental illness”.
But just how big of a money-spinner woke genital mutilation really is can be gleaned from the following numbers.
The application to the Medical Services Advisory Committee says gender-affirming surgery – a catch-all term for procedures that align a person’s body with their gender identity – is already being performed in Australia but that the system is fragmented and can have high out-of-pocket costs.
It estimated there would be 64,101 transgender people who were born male and 64,044 transgender people who were born female who could be candidates for the procedures in Australia.
No wonder the medical profession is keen to keep the money-ball rolling.
At least they’re halfway admitting just what a medicalised house of horrors they want the taxpayer to fund.
“Some medical interventions for gender affirmation are irreversible, may be associated with a risk of adverse effects, involve complex surgical procedures or have consequences on reproductive options after treatment,” it says.
“Consequences” such as permanent sterility and the unlikelihood of ever being able to achieve normal orgasm. As for the “adverse affects”… well, I don’t want to spoil anyone’s appetite, but let’s just say that growing hair in their Frankenvaginas is the least of it.
The Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons declined a request for an interview. However, its application says legitimised and universal access to gender-affirming medical interventions is an important way of improving the mental health of transgender people and those with gender incongruence.
The Age
More likely, paying for that second BMW.
Who cares how many mutilated and sterilised young people it takes, or how much it costs the taxpayer.