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Should Transsexuals be given free laser treatment to get rid of their stubble on the N.H.S or should they pay for it themselves ? What about gender-reassignment?
Is giving somebody with gender dysphoria an operation any different to somebody with issues about their body? For example breast implants...
Is giving somebody with gender dysphoria an operation any different to somebody with issues about their body? For example breast implants...
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I think they should be given it on the NHS.
But not everyone finds it easy to lose weight, do they?
And why should transexuals be given changes on the NHS? It's not as if it'll kill them if they don't have the sex change... :rolleyes:
If transexuals should be given treatment on the NHS, should I, for example, be given laser treatment or something to remove the stubble on my upper lip?
Kentish - I have no idea what the causes are of body dysphoria.
Actually I've never heard of it, closest I can think of is body dysmorphia.
But the NHS has better things to spnd money on. So what's more important then, a someone having a sex change or someone having a life saving operation? - without the operation, they ould die or have srious health problems...
I dont think they should be done on the NHS unless there is a strong case for the personal human or physical wellbeing.
Take into consderatiom, such people might be siginicantly happier as a result of these operations, greatly improving their quality of life.
My spelling and grammer is poor due to my drugged up brain!
No. And why should people have cosmetic surgery on the NHS?
I have plenty of scars from self-abuse, they can annoy me a lot and make me remember every single day years of mental illness that I wish not to have "souvenir" off... they can also give a wrong view of who I am to third party and some do judge you byt them... i askd my GP and there is no way in hell nhs would ever cover it and it's not like i will be able to afford it anytime soon... and the cost involved here are far from being te same as a sex change operation... also i am not sure if i will ever do it as it is still a part of who i am...
ok it's not the same a being a woman trapped into a man body or anything... but I can live with it and if those who want to have a sex change operation and can live and have a job and everything, I don't see why nhs should cover it...
Mountains and molehills my friends.
So you'd pay (effectively, through tax) for a complete stranger to have a sex change?
Because the NHS appears to be strugglng financially, it shouldn't be spending money on gender reassignment operations before it can afford to reinstate free pain relief prescriptions for children... or reinstate the 700 nurses it made redundant locally, for example. If there were money enough for everything remotely medical to be covered, I wouldn' give two hoots who got what, but as the 'pot' is limited, procedures need to be prioritised and in my personal opinion, gender reassignment comes way down the list.
I do, and in my job I make that very decision.
Appearances can be decieving. The NHS could cope, if it didn't have the political directives.
Calpol is a couple of quid and lasts weeks, if not months. Why should the NHS pay for that?
Were those nurses actually needed?
Look at all the job losses announced recently, all in acute Trusts. Can you honestly say that these organisations are efficient? I would recommend that you look at how the insurance companies introduced tariff system in the NHS and then ask youself what standrds or care those insurance funded hospitals provide over there.
Does it come below mental health?
Calpol doesn't cure everything though...
And... any chance you can actually explain what is the bug bear here...?
That's pretty distressing.
Why shouldn't it? What are the criteria for what is covered by the NHS anyway? I'd say, calpol is an effective treatment for a medical condition, therefore - NHS. Then, we go back to the issue of prioritising... What factors would I use in deciding priority need? Maybe- medical need, efficiency of treatment, quality of life following what would be deemed succesful treatment, cost to NHS per unit of treatment and per annual usage... I'm sure there are other factors too. What do you use?
The irony there is that it appears they were and are now finding themselves working for NHS professionals back on the same wards, at a greater cost to the NHS. -Source, local nurse's gossip therefore accuracy not guaranteed.
I don't know very much at all about that at the moment.
Hmmm, well, I had actually categorised it as a mental health issue- would you categorise it differently?
I don't really understand what you mean?
It's quite clear that you have an issue with pain relief for children. I'm wondering what it is because I'm not entirely sure that you are correct...