Transgender 'Tweaks' Like Hair Removal And Voice Feminization Should Be Funded By The Taxpayer, Influential Medical Panel Says

[Sugar Cookie]

Minor aesthetic procedures for transgender individuals should be publicly funded, according to health officials in Canada.

An editorial by doctors from the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) suggests treatments like hair removal and facial injectables should be paid for by the country's Medicare, a publicly funded healthcare system.

'Minimally invasive procedures such as facial injectables and hair removal warrant consideration for public health care funding across Canadian jurisdictions,' wrote Dr Katie Ross and Dr Sarah Fraser, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

'Public funding for such procedures, which are currently funded in only two jurisdictions in Canada, warrants serious consideration in all provinces and territories,' the authors concluded.

Canada's Medicare is funded and administered primarily by each of the country's provinces and the programs receive assistance from the federal government.

The doctors from the article, published in the journal CMA, noted the added benefit of minimally invasive procedures being 'relatively low risk and reversible' compared to hormonal and surgical routes.

They can also be performed by a wide range of physicians.

Unlike Canada, the US does not provide universal healthcare to all of its citizens. Instead, most people are insured by private insurance companies or a combination of private and federal or state programs.

Policies concerning healthcare coverage of gender-affirming care or more minor feminizing procedures, sometimes called facial feminization surgery (FFS), vary from policy to policy. However, if the US were to follow the guidelines suggested in the CMA article, people enrolled in America's government health insurance programs would have their FFS procedures covered and would not have to pay for it themselves.

Government-funded health insurance includes Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE, Veterans Health Administration and State Children's Health Insurance Program.

Waiting lists for more invasive procedures such as chest surgeries and genital reconstruction are, on average, around four years in the US, but minimally invasive procedures could 'help compensate for delays,' the CMA article authors argue.

Currently in the US, a self-pay patient can expect to pay between $8,500 and $49,500 for FFS, depending on how much treatment is done.

For trans women, voice feminization and facial feminization surgery include operations such as forehead and brow bone reshaping, jaw and chin contouring, nose reshaping (rhinoplasty), hairline advancement, and tracheal shave — a procedure to reduce the size of the Adam's apple

Hair removal, for example removing facial hair on a biological male wishing to transition to a woman, or hair transplantation through electrolysis or hairplasty, is another option to bring an individual closer to their desired gender.

Whether or not these procedures are medically necessary for transgender individuals remains open to debate.

Some health insurers in the US may cover minor procedures to facilitate the gender transition process as part of treatment for gender dysphoria.

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Transgender 'tweaks' should be taxpayer funded, medical panel says

An editorial written by doctors from the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) suggests taxpayer money should pay for aesthetic adjustments like hair removal and facial injectables.

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[BuffettGirl]

Nope. Not unless 'cis-canadians' can get the same procedures and treatments free of charge. But not my dumbass country, not my say...

 

[Lexxie360]

I live close to Canada so this one worries me! I have no problem with transgendered people but I'll be damned if I help fund their transformation with my tax dollars. That's like me saying: "Hey government, will you make state insurance pay for my waxing, because I don't feel like a woman when I'm hairy?" But since I'm a woman, I'd be laughed out the door!

 

[runninfawn]

hey if anyone transist it is up to them to pay for all costs. lf you were born a female with a very masculine chin, or nose or facial hair or what ever if you want to change that you have to pay for it as it isn't a health problem so why should our hard earned money pay for a trans proceedure and would a female to male trans also have making them more masculine in appearance be paid for?? i am canadian and enough is enough!! When our medical coverage doesn't pay for dental, hearing and vision needs we have to try to pay for it somehow or do the best we can with what we have and yes in the long run it does affect our health and well being let them pay for their own none medical needs and wants...

 

[thuumpr]

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Transgender 'tweaks' should be taxpayer funded, medical panel says

An editorial written by doctors from the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) suggests taxpayer money should pay for aesthetic adjustments like hair removal and facial injectables.

www.dailymail.co.uk

I agree! Canadians should pay for their trans patients... But expect patients from the U.S.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

@thuumpr

I don't know how true it is but I have heard people in Canada wait for cancer treatment and some come here in order to get treated.

If this is true Canada really needs to check it's priorities.

 

[Metalfan]

Last I looked, shaving your balls is pretty cheap anyways.

 

[Sejanus]

The government up here will do what they want anyway. I do come at this from a slightly different perspective though. When it was determined that I had basically no testosterone and I required it in order to sustain life, I had to have replacement therapy. Needed to jump through significant hoops because regulations have changed for access to testosterone treatment.

The problem here in Ontario was simple. There were individuals coming in from all across the country to get access to testosterone replacement if they wanted to transition into a male for example. The government's decision at that point was to reregulate how it was doling out testosterone. Which meant in short that it made it a hell of a challenge for people like me to get what we medically needed in order to sustain life. Long story short I got access to it and that's fine but that's only because I had a strong support team in healthcare that was going to bat for me. So when it comes to these... what I call optional procedures or vanity exercises, I just shake my head.

If a person is disfigured in an accident, a fire, or other serious mishap and needs reconstructive surgery to repair appearance for a return to some semblance of normalcy in life, they also have to jump through flaming hoops. You're going to do for some you got to do for all. I would be more comfortable knowing that people who require certain surgeries are guaranteed to get it before other people that are potentially screwing around with what gender they want to be this year. You don't often get buyers remorse from people that have had reconstructions done. Transgendered individuals on the other hand seem to have a pretty high percentage of folks that change their minds later on down the road or just outright commit suicide. Just seems like a pretty poor investment to be making.

 

[Blizzard]

For trans women, voice feminization and facial feminization surgery include operations such as forehead and brow bone reshaping, jaw and chin contouring, nose reshaping (rhinoplasty), hairline advancement, and tracheal shave — a procedure to reduce the size of the Adam's apple

Hair removal, for example removing facial hair on a biological male wishing to transition to a woman, or hair transplantation through electrolysis or hairplasty, is another option to bring an individual closer to their desired gender.

hmm, which parts of this are 'reversible'

...eh

Canada's really going down the tubes.
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I just realized that these propagandists are deliberately reversing some terms.

In reality:

A "trans man" is basically a man who's trying to physically become a woman
A "trans woman" is a woman who is trying to physically become a man

they are saying this backwards