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 cause 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.
Sodom and Gomorrah ...... Things are so far out of control but those who lack any moral compass will not be able to see it.
ReplyDeleteIncomprehensible. I see it as a personal decision. Others should nt be forced to pay for such a procedure, no?
ReplyDeleteJean
"Others should not be forced to pay for such a procedure, no?"
DeleteIs anyone being forced to go to Duke to pay for these surgeries? As a person who pays something for health care, I am forced to subsidize the unhealthy lifestyles of many. It would be nice if the entirety of life could be ala carte and I could opt out of paying for anything I find objectionable. It doesn't work that way.
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DeleteMax,
A bit of stretch, that logic. The very least of it is that students already at Duke are most likely not going to change their minds, and are forced to accept the additional cost. Health insurance plans, in general, include members who engage in those unhealthy lifestyles; that's hard to avoid. This, I think, is a bit different. It is an elective procedure. It is not a life or death situation. It isn't that it is an objectionable or moral issue with me. I just think it's crossing a line when others are forced to pay. That unhealthy lifestyles thing? I don't have a problem with higher premiums for those who are obese, or smoke, or, in the Age of Obamacare (a slight take on your flower kids 'Age of Aquarius' bit; thought you might like that, what with your avatar and all. :-) ), a higher premium for pre-existing conditions. But sex-change? Far from life-threatening.
Jean
Jean, we are all presented with the like or leave it mentality all the time in this country and schools raise their fees midstream on students all the time. If I am going to school for an education, why should my tuition be jacked up to pay for a ton of shit that doesn't benefit me like school gyms, athletic programs, marching bands and on and on. It happens all the time. This, to me, is just another chapter in the endless, stupid war between liberals and conservatives on what is and isn't morally acceptable. If Duke wants to offer this, that is their prerogative.
DeleteYou KNOW what's going to happen. 10-15 years down the road, the person who got a sex change will claim that they were emotionally vulnerable and that they University should not have provided the sex change and they will win millions of dollars from the University. I guarantee it.
ReplyDeleteIn Britain thousand of women had breast implants from a dodgy French maker. Women started have problems with them leaking.. the French company went bust and so they turned to the NHS to remove them for free... now the NHS is being challenged in court install new implants because the removal caused self esteem issues.....
DeleteThis has absolutely nothing to do with health care much like abortion. These are elective procedures like a boob job or a face lift. This is outrageous.
ReplyDeleteWow, 7 comments on an unrelated health care topic before someone mentioned the word "abortion".
ReplyDeleteThe Over/Under was 3.
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“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.
Deletepfunky,
Killing babies, boob jobs, and facelifts aren't health care. Influenza, broken bones, cancer, etc. are healthcare.
Need more clarification?
My bad. I'll rephrase using the term "medical":
DeleteWow, 7 comments on an unrelated MEDICAL topic before someone mentioned the word "abortion".
The Over/Under was 3.
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Better?
I just want to get one thing straight. If a guy decides to get his dick cut off and doesn't spend the entire 50G's can he get another one put back on if he changes his/her mind?
DeleteI know this is delving into the medical ethics field but Max for one I'm sure would have an intimate knowledge of the subject.
And Sunny Frothingham? Sounds like the leading lady from a bad Woody Allen movie!
Deleteplunky, is using the term Woody allowed?
And oh yeah. This is one more reason that Duke sucks.
DeleteWhy is a University offering this type of surgery? Seems to me that the University has an obligation only to educate the students. When they start to amputate and countersink the blokes what happens to the tuition they are missing while being gelded? Somehow I can see a case for more intrusive government if the above is the result of splinter (pun intended) groups running the shop.
ReplyDelete"Seems to me that the University has an obligation only to educate the students."
DeleteI wish education were that simple today. Look at out college sports programs and what coaches make. I'm trying to get back into school for a masters degree and for a program that will be entirely on line, I will pay close to 35K largely for the right to have someone tell me what to read and grade my papers. The left in this country has much culpability in the out of hand rise in tuition costs.
Max,
Delete"The left in this country has much culpability in the out of hand rise in tuition costs."
Ya think?
Gee, I hope that isn't 35K per year. The 'someone tell me what to read and grade my papers part'? At least you won't have to sit in a few classes and waste time, like I did; a few of my courses were exactly that.
Jean