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Agree, but I didn't want to get into morality or ethics. To me, the clearest and least debatable aspect of the impact is financial - because there's no way we'd have even 5% of the "gender" surgeries we have seen in the last 10 years if those surgeries weren't covered by insurance, which is a very new and ridiculous situation, and covered care costs everyone in the insurance pool, which is all of us who buy insurance and pay taxes. And insurers paying for x means they cut back on paying for y.Call me crazy, but I think it should be considered a grievous breach of the Hippocratic oath for a surgeon to remove a person's healthy body parts just because they request it. Even if the patient is able to pay out of pocket, any doctor willing to intentionally maim a person for money shouldn't be practicing medicine.
Cancer patients can't get coverage outside of specific "evidence-based" options, but sure, let's pay 5, 6, 7 figures for some angsty 16-year-old with a different favorite color every week and moping in her bedroom to grow a pube 'stache or get her breasts lopped off, with a giant seal of medical approval. If people (or their parents) are just so anxiety-ridden and disturbed by internet-amped unhappiness and amateur "diagnoses" and suicide threats, if it matters that much and is so real, then they can work like hell and save up for it. And, like I said, for the aftermath.


