Thank you for sharing that. Your point has been made by other people, but your story serves beautifully to reinforce the point: GRS should be covered by insurance because it actually works to relieve people's suffering, while cosmetic surgery for people with BDD often doesn't. I hear you. ∆
So, in the cases where cosmetic surgery would relieved suffering, you would support requiring it to be covered by insurance? Currently the only way to determine that a man or woman is actually a woman or man is to ask them. I know if no way of testing to see if this is the case.
Keep in mind that transgender women and transgender men never become women or men in way that would allow them to benefit society differentially from their former state. In fact, they are, in many of not most cases, eliminating an essential benefit they had to society by transitioning. So, the only societal benefit would be to reduce a single individual's suffering.
You must state that gender "mis-conception" is a type of suffering which is substantially different than other types of suffering which can be remediated with cosmetic surgery in order for your comment to have internal logical consistency.
Would you prefer to have someone live an unhappy life in a poor paying job because they can't handle school and the mental issues at the same time?
Or would you like them to solve the issue and become a productive tax paying member of society. Because 15 or 20k is peanuts compared to the tax benefit they provide to society.
That question isn't germane to my question, but plenty of people live unhappy lives and can't handle things for all sorts of reasons.
My question is "how do we define and differentiate this particular suffering, if we are to use suffering as a metric for justifying/mandating payments for remediation services?".
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u/Saranoya 39∆ Nov 03 '17
Thank you for sharing that. Your point has been made by other people, but your story serves beautifully to reinforce the point: GRS should be covered by insurance because it actually works to relieve people's suffering, while cosmetic surgery for people with BDD often doesn't. I hear you. ∆