02 May 13
Duke University, in its infinite wisdom...
By Scott Greer, on Apr 30, 2013
Duke University plans to raise its student fees in order pay for students' sex reassignment surgery.
Duke University recently made the decision to raise student fees in order add sex-reassignment surgery to their healthcare plan.
The private university, located in North Carolina, follows Brown and other universities in offering coverage for the controversial operation.
Administrators say they will cover the cost of the reassignment surgery up to $50,000 that will be covered with a 0.3 percent increase to overall student fees.
LGBT advocates on campus immediately celebrated the university’s decision.
“The addition of sexual reassignment surgery with a $50,000 cap makes Duke’s student health care plan one of the most, if not the most, transgender-inclusive plans in the country,” Sunny Frothingham, the outreach chair for Blue Devils United told the Duke Chronicle last week.
The official plan is in-line with a Student Government Resolution passed last March that called upon the school to cover sex change operations. The school previously covered mental health care, hormone therapy and breast augmentation and reduction surgery to students who wished to change their gender.
There are 37 universities in America that cover sex change operations, according to TransgenderLaw.org. Emory University is the only other college in the Southeast, besides Duke, to offer sexual reassignment surgery to students.
http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=4730
02 May 13
Originally posted by KazetNagorraSure I do. I would have phased it in over four years, so that students applying to the university could make an informed decision and not be stuck at a university that made a radical change in its policies.
It's a bit unclear what you want to discuss. Don't you think a private university should be free to set its tuition fees or decide what to cover under its own health care plan?
So will Duke maintain its academic reputation, or will it become more famous for attracting people with gender identity whateveritscalled, so they can get their private bits mangled and have other people pay for it?
Does Duke pay for chemotherapy, bone marrow transplants, and other expensive therapies for real medical problems?
02 May 13
Originally posted by KazetNagorraI thought healthcare plans were only for necessary medical intervention.
It's a bit unclear what you want to discuss. Don't you think a private university should be free to set its tuition fees or decide what to cover under its own health care plan?
If you wanted to change your sex I would not see that as a necessary
intervention.
These weirdos need to be put away in a soft room.
Why should my health insurance plan cost more for that type of nonsense?
02 May 13
Originally posted by johnnylongwoodyStudents who have problems with Duke University's policy on their health care coverage can choose not to study there. I do doubt students will feel particularly strongly about a 0.3% increase in their tuition fees.
I thought healthcare plans were only for necessary medical intervention.
If you wanted to change your sex I would not see that as a necessary
intervention.
These weirdos need to be put away in a soft room.
Why should my health insurance plan cost more for that type of nonsense?
02 May 13
Originally posted by KazetNagorraSo someone two years in, two and a half years in, should just suck it up?
Students who have problems with Duke University's policy on their health care coverage can choose not to study there. I do doubt students will feel particularly strongly about a 0.3% increase in their tuition fees.
02 May 13
Originally posted by sasquatch672Pretty much, yeah. An 0.3% increase in tuition is one of those trials and tribulations that life just throws at you sometimes and you have to deal with. Paying the tuition fee grants you the right to study for a set period of time and does not come with a guarantee of having a say in what determines the tuition fees in coming years.
So someone two years in, two and a half years in, should just suck it up?
02 May 13
Originally posted by sasquatch672So now you have to help pay for someone's sex change if you want to go to school at Duke?
Duke University, in its infinite wisdom...
By Scott Greer, on Apr 30, 2013
Duke University plans to raise its student fees in order pay for students' sex reassignment surgery.
Duke University recently made the decision to raise student fees in order add sex-reassignment surgery to their healthcare plan.
The private universit ...[text shortened]... to offer sexual reassignment surgery to students.
http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=4730
Wow.
02 May 13
Originally posted by johnnylongwoodyIt is called gender reassignment surgery. The actual number of people who undergo this procedure is very small. These comments I see are from people who are ignorant of most reasons people choose to undergo this procedure. Calling these people weirdos and put away in a soft room makes you an ignorant fool. Nonsense ? Your comment is nonsense. 😛😛😛
I thought healthcare plans were only for necessary medical intervention.
If you wanted to change your sex I would not see that as a necessary
intervention.
These weirdos need to be put away in a soft room.
Why should my health insurance plan cost more for that type of nonsense?
02 May 13
Originally posted by caissad4You mean the actual number is small because only a nut would
It is called gender reassignment surgery. The actual number of people who undergo this procedure is very small. These comments I see are from people who are ignorant of most reasons people choose to undergo this procedure. Calling these people weirdos and put away in a soft room makes you an ignorant fool. Nonsense ? Your comment is nonsense. 😛😛😛
think that this medical intervention is necessary and not alone that
but you think it's ok that insurance prices should go up to cover it.
The rest of normal folk must pay for the insanity of others that is what
you are really saying here by calling me ignorant and approving the idea
that gender reassignment surgery is ok.
Well I'm sorry. It's not ok.
If someone wants gender reassignment surgery then let them pay for it
and don't expect others to do so for them in the form of higher taxes
and higher health insurance.
Life is hard enough without some nut going around saying he/she
thinks he/she/ should be a boy/girl and expect others to suffer
financially for it.
02 May 13
Originally posted by johnnylongwoodyI can well imagine a few nuts who want to change gender and I presume
You mean the actual number is small because only a nut would
think that this medical intervention is necessary and not alone that
but you think it's ok that insurance prices should go up to cover it.
The rest of normal folk must pay for the insanity of others that is what
you are really saying here by calling me ignorant and approving the idea ...[text shortened]... e/she
thinks he/she/ should be a boy/girl and expect others to suffer
financially for it.
there is plenty of counselling and psyche evaluation for anyone who does.
However can you imagine the hell of living in a wrong-sex body? Imagine
living without your longwoody ... wouldn't you want a man's body?
Considering your other liberal posts I am surprised you take this stance
on transgenders.
02 May 13
Originally posted by wolfgang59My other liberal posts???
I can well imagine a few nuts who want to change gender and I presume
there is plenty of counselling and psyche evaluation for anyone who does.
However can you imagine the hell of living in a wrong-sex body? Imagine
living without your longwoody ... wouldn't you want a man's body?
Considering your other liberal posts I am surprised you take this stance
on transgenders.
You leave my long woody out of this. 😛😛
02 May 13
Originally posted by wolfgang59
[b]I can well imagine a few nuts who want to change gender and I presume
there is plenty of counselling and psyche evaluation for anyone who does.
You say nuts ? See Benjamin standards.
However can you imagine the hell of living in a wrong-sex body?
Yes I can.