11/10/2012, 1:10 am
Comrades -
More glorious news from the front lines of the revolution! Barely 4 days from the election in which the California collective wisely voted for more taxes, and we have this new dispatch. The California collective is way ahead of the curve, as they can find new revenue, and spend it all in the same week. How's that for efficiency??
Gender spenders: San Francisco to foot bill for sex changes
More glorious news from the front lines of the revolution! Barely 4 days from the election in which the California collective wisely voted for more taxes, and we have this new dispatch. The California collective is way ahead of the curve, as they can find new revenue, and spend it all in the same week. How's that for efficiency??
Gender spenders: San Francisco to foot bill for sex changes
In the midst of cash-strapped Californians approving new taxes to prevent further cuts in essential state services, San Francisco health officials appear to have found the money to fund what they say is a much-needed service to residents living in the City by the Bay: Sex changes.
The gender-switching surgeries are part of a comprehensive program for treating transgender people that the city's Health Commission green-lighted on Tuesday and announced two days later. Backers say it will help ease the mental anguish of people who feel they are trapped in bodies of the wrong gender, but critics wonder why the taxpayers should foot the bill.
“Taxpayers cannot afford this, as there are unintended costs and unintended consequences unrelated to the actual surgery, such as their longer-term hormone treatment, psychology needs and other longer term health issues,” said Thomas Moyer, a City by the Bay resident and author of “A Conservative Survival Guide to San Francisco.”