by Rod Williams, April 28, 2022- In his state of the Metro Address yesterday, Mayor John Cooper said, "We are pushing for gender-affirming health coverage for Metro employees." What does this mean?
Gender-affirming is the new woke-speak for treating people with gender dysphoria but with an understanding that what is needed is to conform one's body to the sexual identity in one's mind.
Gender dysphoria is the current medical term for what was called gender identity disorder up until 2013 when it was deemed that gender dysphoria was less stigmatizing than gender identity disorder. Gender dysphoria is when a person, for instance, born a male thinks he is really a female trapped in a man's body. Gender dysphoria is described as the distress a person feels due to a mismatch between their gender identity—their personal sense of their own gender—and their sex assigned at birth.
By using the term "gender-affirming," that implies that the gender a person thinks he is is the person's real gender. Gender-affirming health coverage would apparently include hormone treatment and surgical treatment. In other words, metro taxpayers will be paying for sex-change operations for Metro employees.
If Mayor Cooper's statement means anything other than that he needs to clarify it.
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