Want A Free Vagina To Go With Your Penis? Come to Canada!
We've officially reached peak insanity.
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Ontarian wins legal battle for public funding of gender-affirming surgery argued as 'experimental'.
Thanks to a ruling by the Divisional Court of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, an Ontario man will be permitted to obtain a vaginoplasty (a new vagina) while keeping his penis — and taxpayers are on the hook for it.
The Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) had previously declined to provide coverage for the procedure. But “K.S.”, a biological male who identifies as non-binary, appealed that rejection; and the courts agreed with his argument that the surgery is medically necessary — in essence, that he needs a “vagina” to feel whole, and he that he mustn’t be forced to part with his penis to obtain one.
The court’s decision clears him to travel to the Crane Center for Transgender Surgery in Austin, Texas (courtesy of taxpayers), since no surgeon in Canada performs the procedure. (You can listen to Dr. Curtis Crane expound on his modus operandi here — although you might want to first pre-medicate with some anti-nausea pills.)
OHIP’s previous denial, apparently, made K.S. feel “less than”. Well, Canadian taxpayers might be forgiven for feeling “less than” enthused by the court’s decision, given the disastrous state of a healthcare system that has left millions of Canadians without a family doctor and millions more languishing on long wait lists for everything from knee replacements to cancer care.
One of my sideline activities is to provide navigation services to individuals with complex diagnoses as they grapple with the incomprehensible vagaries of our health care apparatus. I recently helped a woman with a rare form of brain cancer find her way to life-saving surgery in Pittsburgh after she had exhausted all Canadian options for care. Her application for provincial coverage of out-of-country care was denied, so she and her family were forced to raise hundreds of thousand of dollars and to incur a mountain of personal debt to avail themselves of the care she needed. I’m sure she’s tickled pink to hear that fake vaginas are covered while her brain tumour extraction was not — just as tickled as the countless other Canadians who’d like to travel to the US for urgently-needed care, but can’t afford it.
Our health care system — more accurately, our universal waiting system — is imploding due to a lack of funding, resources, and doctors. Canadians are dying in ever-lengthening queues. Yet somehow we can find the money to pay for the creation of pseudo-hermaphrodites — or to amputate the perfectly healthy fingers of people with so-called “body integrity dysphoria”. Or, if you’d prefer to just die, we can offer you Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), and that lickety-split: sign here, and we’ll fit you in next Tuesday.
We’ve reached peak insanity.
In the case of K.S., the three-judge panel agreed that his requested procedure aligns with the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) Standards of Care, referred to as the “leading authority” on gender-affirming care.
The good judges were apparently unaware of the WPATH Files released last month; if they were, I daresay they’d have been loathe to lend any credence whatsoever to that organization’s “standards”. Nor can they be aware of the just-released final report of the Cass Review (commissioned four years to investigate the disturbing practices of the U.K.’s Gender Identity Service), which utterly strips WPATH of any remaining credibility.
In any event, for K.S. it’s all good news: not only will he get his designer vagina, OHIP is on the hook for the twenty grand he forked out in legal costs. Praise be.
Again: we’ve gone completely nuts.
But speaking of nuts: I’m sure that if you want a taxpayer-funded pair — or a second set, even — there’s a boutique surgical clinic in Texas that can help you out.
Karma will catch up to this person...Everything I have read about this surgery is a nightmare. I completely agree, we, or at least our courts have reached peak insanity. I wonder who he'll sue when the surgery goes off the rails and his life is miserable later.
So done with the waste of taxpayers money . Canada is becoming the laughing stock of the world.