Posted on 04/21/2010 9:52:12 AM PDT by NYer
As if college tuition wasn't expensive enough. Now if you want to send your child to an Ivy League university you might be footing the bill for this?
Daily Pennsylvanian reports:
In the next academic year, the Penn Student Insurance Plan will begin offering a new benefit for transgender students — it will cover the cost of the gender confirmation process, also known as gender reassignment or transition.The problem is that transgender students and homosexuals have been overlooked on our college campuses? You can't be serious.
The benefit covers triadic treatment, the term used for the three-step process of gender confirmation. Triadic treatment consists of psychotherapy, estrogen or testosterone hormone treatment and sex reassignment surgery, which involves the changing of genitals.
The benefit covers the costs of surgery for up to $50,000. According to a research report by the organization Transgender At Work, the cost of male-to-female surgery can average around $20,000.
The initiative was introduced by the previous Lambda Alliance board, chaired by College senior and Daily Pennsylvanian columnist Dennie Zastrow.
“A problem with LGBT advocacy at Penn in the past had been that we overlooked the needs of transgender students,” Zastrow said.
Ping!
Why would they cover an elective surgery? If so, they will need to cover gastric bypass, breast enhancement/reduction, nose jobs, etc...
Sweet. I guess the taxpayers of PA are all for this?
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I agree ... this is beyond the absurd. Perhaps enrollment numbers are down ;-)
Among the things parents shouldn’t have to worry about when sending a son off to college is getting a daughter back, or vice versa.
Entitlement gone wild
For quite a while I have been pondering why college tuition has been going up so rapidly and so high. I think with the unfolding of recent events I have finally figured it out.
As we have heard, folded away in the healthcare bill is a provision for the government to take over student loans and another provision that greatly increases Pell Grants. We know the Democrats are famous for mislabeling bills and saying one thing while doing another and this seems to tie in with rising school tuition.
If tuition gets high enough almost everyone will have to get loans to go to school. Then, if you have a student loan from the government or a Pell Grant they will be able to dictate the terms of repayment. They are now saying that doctors will have to perform x years of government dictated practice to pay off their student loans so with this setup they can now dictate to everyone what they must do and for how long.
College student insurance is about $400. Sounds like a steal to me.
I like little frogs, I really had a hard time cutting them up!
Excellent points!! Italy has had socialized medicine for 30+ years. Physicians may have a private practice but must also work at a state clinic, x number of days per week. This is all fine and dandy until one becomes seriously ill. Not sure how much funding the Italian government gives to education.
What about those with bipolar disorder,depression,schizophrenia,and any other psychiatric disorder? They should be able to get help too,especially with meds.I’m being serious,as I am bipolar.If I were a student I would want assistance as well.
The state university is called Penn State. This is the University of Pennsylvania; Ivy League; founded by Benjamin Franklin, who has been spinning in his grave down at 4th and Arch Streets for a long, long time now.
No kidding, since the mutilation process is 10K for starters.
Oh that is a given - the new rules for repayment of student loans includes x number of years in a certain “needed” profession cuts off repayment needs. It doesn’t matter though - no matter how much you owe or what you repay, it is for 20 years - total. And repayment is based on your income, not the amount owed. So you could conceiveably get a degree then work at a fast food joint - repayment is based on income so after your repayment years you may have only repaid a very small portion of your loan, but it is done and now you can work to earn the big bucks. Essentially, we are all going to be paying for a new crop of Community Organizer lawyers.
Good grief! Leave it to Penn to decide to support folks afflicted the autogynephilia (and whatever the corresponding paraphilia among women is) in their delusions. I wonder how much this decision will up the cost of student health insurance and how much it will sap the endowment.
Yep. Don’t know how many people still think Penn (University of Pennsylvania) and Penn State are the same school. Proud Nittany Lion here :)
We Are...Penn State!
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