Posted on 08/23/2023 3:54:27 PM PDT by Morgana
Sex-change surgeries carried out across US annually have nearly tripled in recent years, a study suggests.
The number of gender-affirming operations nearly tripled from 2016 to 2019 before dropping slightly in 2020, according to research published Wednesday.
The increase likely reflects expanded insurance coverage for transgender care after the Obama administration and some states actively discouraged discrimination based on gender identity, lead author Dr Jason Wright of Columbia University said. The dip in 2020 can be attributed to the pandemic.
About 48,000 patients underwent such surgeries during the five years studied, with about 13,000 procedures done in 2019, the peak year, and 12,800 in 2020.
A little more than half the patients were ages 19 to 30. Surgeries in patients 18 and younger were rare: fewer than 1,200 in the highest volume year. But transgender surgeries are an understudied area due to the fact they have only recently become more widely available.
In the last couple of years, many states have taken steps to restrict or ban transgender care for people under age 18, adding to waiting lists of patients seeking care in states that have declared themselves refuges for transgender people.
'This age group is really not what's driving the overall increase in gender-affirming surgery that we found,' Dr Wright said.
Among the youngest patients, the most common surgeries were breast and chest procedures, with more than 3,000 young people undergoing such operations during the five years.
It is not clear how many of the patients were undergoing male-to-female or female-to-male transitions.
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The biggest mystery to me is how they are affording this & then the lifetime medical care???? We all know we get taken to the cleaners for even the smallest thing.
The biggest mystery to me is how they are affording this & then the lifetime medical care???? We all know we get taken to the cleaners for even the smallest thing.
Obama care will pay for the trans surgery. However if they want to de-trans they pay for that. I don’t know who pays for all the other long term problems. More than likely they become disabled and we do.
billions in lawsuits coming over this in the coming years, just watch!
Fertile to Sterilized
Liberalism assists in poor self image issue.
We need war crimes trials and executions.
A new boom industry, soon to be followed by the second boom industry of “Detransitioning” (sic... aka “mutilation mitigation”).
Because it is now covered by insurance. You can thank Obama for that.
All part of the master reset long game. In 200 years the planet will be weak stupid morons that suffer from dependency issues. Along with 75% fewer people. Ripe for the harvest.
They’re going to wish they hadn’t.
What’s wrong with this country? The Carter years were a golden age compared to the nut house we’re living in now.
Don’t call these “surgeries.” They’re mutilations. Of perfectly healthy body parts.
We need more eunuchs, apparently.
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