I have no problem with hormone therapy, and I’d help pay for counseling gladly.
I am concerned that the guy is going to get his junk removed and then regret it later. And that would make me very sad, because
and I don’t want to fail him, even if he’s failing himself at the moment.
I already know one person who regrets their M-to-F surgery.
Yes, because that’s still more than millions of law-abiding Americans get.
Law-abiding Americans don’t have a constitutional right to health care. Inmates do.
millions of law-abiding Americans don’t have health insurance to pay for cancer treatment, or medications for chronic conditions. But it would be morally abhorrent to refuse treatment for prisoners to save money.
Thems the breaks. If the state is taking custody of someone, then they are responsible for their physical wellbeing and providing medical care.
And from a purely pragmatic point of view, paying probably less than $100 per month for hormone treatment is FAR cheaper than the long terms costs of not doing so (e.g. higher costs for counseling, antidepressants or other meds, more staffing and expense for suicide watches or solitary confinement, cost of treating suicide attempts, cost of dealing with lawsuits for withholding care). If Manning files a lawsuit to try to get hormone treatment, the state’s legal fees alone will dwarf the cost of just providing the treatment.
Re Cost Of Hormone Replacement Therapy
In one of the other trans threads going on at the moment, Una Persson shared that without insurance helping to pay for them estradiol and (I can’t remember the name of the other drug) cost a little under $50 a month.
Yes, if group A is suffering an injustice, we should ignore it as long as group B is suffering a greater injustice.
I don’t consider cancer treatment to be on the same level of someone wanting to look like their preferred gender.
Which, to me, means they have an obligation to keep him from dying. Nothing more.
I’d rather spend a thousand dollars on legal fees than spend one dollar to make Bradley Manning feel more comfortable in his own skin.
I don’t know much about much when it comes to these issues, but I’d hope doctors strongly encourage him to live as a woman without any hormones for awhile. He’s been through a terrific amount of psychological and emotional trauma and I wouldn’t want him jumping into something out of a desperate attempt to exert some sort of control over his life the military can’t take away from him.
Yes, we know. It’s because you are, at a fundamental level, a horrible person.
We do not require any further reminders of that fact, thank you.
You don’t just declare yourself a trans person and immediately get hormone therapy and surgery. ANY patient would have a waiting period filled with extensive testing before being given hormones.