OK who is this?

[The Lone Gunman]

Unless being a man is now an illness......cue the CUK fembots

For some people it is.

[DaveB]

Unless being a man is now an illness......cue the CUK fembots

Well some of them can be pretty sick.....





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[BrilloPad]

Ex welder now IT consultant. You must be a contributor here.
I am sure I recall someone with that background.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/n...re/8045268.stm

Anyway. Give up the strike, find another way.

Its a fair cop guv.

[minestrone]

Run a bath and stick a toaster in it darling.

[Ardesco]

Well all they have to do is put it in the system for review and drag it on a bit by getting some psyche profiles done to find out his mental state and then by the time they decide he will be dead anyway.

End of problem.

[pmeswani]

Why not?
If this person has severe mental issues with their body then they deserve support, even if it is a quality of life thing they deserve support. Particularly if the local authority pays for cosmetic procedures on the same grounds.

He/She paid for the sex change. It is a lifestyle choice. The NHS should not be paying for someone's lifestyle choice. (You could argue that obesity is a lifestyle choice, but is not in the same category as a sex change).

[Pogle]

He/She paid for the sex change. It is a lifestyle choice. The NHS should not be paying for someone's lifestyle choice. (You could argue that obesity is a lifestyle choice, but is not in the same category as a sex change).

So using that logic, children are a 'lifestyle' choice, so do you think the NHS should not fund infertility treatment either?

And why is obesity not in the same category then?

[The Lone Gunman]

He/She paid for the sex change. It is a lifestyle choice. The NHS should not be paying for someone's lifestyle choice. (You could argue that obesity is a lifestyle choice, but is not in the same category as a sex change).

You think this is as simple as a lifestyle choice?
You think that this bloke got up one day and decided he "wanted" to be a woman?
If he did I would suggest that he is mentally ill and needs long term expensive treatment to sort that out.
If there is some form of biological imperative then there is no choice being made. Australian researchers claim to have found a "transsexual" gene so dont dismiss this out of hand.

As pointed out by Pog and as suggested by myself, there are any number of lifestyle choices and elective procedures already funded by the NHS.

[Lockhouse]

There's probably a lot more to this story than meets the eye but as someone who has a friend who is transsexual, it's anything but a "lifestyle choice". There's no "choice" involved.

If anything the person concerned has probably "not played the game" correctly with the PCT but I don't know enough to comment.

[Troll]

So using that logic, children are a 'lifestyle' choice, so do you think the NHS should not fund infertility treatment either?

Definitely not - especially where the sperm is directly forced into the egg to fertilise - it's contra-evolutionary and we are starting to see the increase in illness in children conceived this way.