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Originally Posted by SebC
If this is the case, why is sex reassignment surgery a government-funded procedure? And do you agree with that? What would differentiate this from pre-birth procedure that aims to align sex and gender?
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Sex reassignment surgery is voluntary. That's a pretty huge distinction right off the bat. It's a matter of individual assessment (and self-assessment) in a particular case and not a generalization, for two. The fact that not every transgendered person wants to go through with it is telling on its own.
As to whether it should be government funded, that's a reasonable question. I'm not sure I have a strong opinion one way or the other. You could argue that if a medical professional assesses the individual case and says "for this person, this procedure is likely to produce a significantly better quality of life", and the person's willing to do it, it's justifiably something that should be funded. But as to which "quality of life improving" surgeries should get government funding and which shouldn't, I'm sort of agnostic about where that line should fall.