Posted on 03/21/2016 1:02:29 PM PDT by massmike
Sometimes it's hard to be what you want to be when people only know you for what you used to be.
This is the challenge facing Marcelas Owens, who just turned 17. For much of life, people have only known Marcelas as the "Obamacare kid."
He was the chubby 11-year-old African-American boy who stood next to President Barack Obama as he signed Obamacare into law at a White House ceremony on March 23, 2010. He was the miniature health care activist in the black vest dwarfed by powerful lawmakers in a famous photo of that moment. He was a modern-day Peter Pan, perpetually frozen in childhood even as the news cycle moved on.
But so has Marcelas. As supporters prepare to mark the sixth anniversary of Obamacare's signing, Marcelas is marking another rite of passage -- as a transgender teen. After years of questions, she is starting to tell family and friends what she has long known: Though born male, she's long identified as a female.
Marcelas is also starting to consider hormone therapy and other options. Obamacare prohibits insurers from denying coverage to transgender people on the basis of their identity. The Obama administration ended a 33-year ban on Medicare coverage for gender reassignment surgery in 2014.
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Speechless.
It’s now “The Obamacare ‘It’.”
I don’t care. Mutilate yourself anyway you wish. Just leave me out of it.
No. He's the perfect Obamacare kid. Forcing the taxpayer to fund expensive, elective surgery. I honestly don't care if this kid wants to be a woman. I think he's making a mistake and should get psychological help, but if he is hellbent on doing it, so be it. But I sure as Hell don't want to pay for it. If he wants to do it, he needs to pay for it himself with zero taxpayer assistance.
Everything that Obungo touches turns to sh*t!
Not the happy ending I was looking forward too. I was hoping he had seen the light and denounced his youthful indiscretion and was voting for either Trump or Cruz...
Perfect poster child for the Obama administration.
Perverted, lied to, delusional.
There, fixed it. Now, if I decided I was Napoleon, would it pay for French Field Marshal uniforms? Or, if I decided I was Black, would it pay for melanin injections?
Well, that is just perfect.
Just how does mutilating your sex organs change an XX to an XY?
It’s not a bug, it’s a feature. One of the standard characteristics of government medical systems is that funding goes to politically-favored elective treatments instead of to improvements in basic care.
Somehow this seems so perfect...
obamacare: it will make you want to cut your dork off.
I don’t blame any little boy for wishing he were a girl. Boys are not valued in our culture. Everything is geared towards girls.
Headline led* me to think that Marcelas had turned 27 and transitioned to adult responsibilities.
Probably won’t have to change first name anyway.
(* with the new speachlish, should ‘led’ be leaded?)
Back in my day, we’d just tie a string around it, tie the other end to a doorknob, and slam the door. That would take care of the unwanted thing cheap and easy.
Wait, it is a tooth Marcelas is trying to remove, right?
Good Lord!
This entire administration is one gigantic freak show!
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