Colorado’s Democratic governor has “just signed a bill forcing all of us to pay for elective transgender-affirming procedures… this bill even includes a slush fund to circumvent Medicaid no longer covering this. Women of CO: you will all now be paying for men’s breast implants, laser hair removal and skin tightening. But your insurance will NOT cover any of these elective procedures for you. Let that sink in,” notes the head of Protect Kids Colorado. And the bill, Colorado House Bill 25-1309, “also takes testosterone off the drug tracking program. So the wrong-sex hormones you’re paying for for children will be secret.” Moreover, the bill “also set up a slush fund of our tax dollars to go to this.”
The legislation will result in Colorado residents paying millions of dollars more in premiums for their health insurance, according to the Colorado Division of Insurance. It will also result in increased “out-of-pocket” costs for people with health insurance.
Author Wesley Yang observes, “Every Coloradan will be mandated by law to bear the cost of cheek implants, lip augmentation, nose jobs, and breast implants (among other elective cosmetic procedures) for one group of legally privileged people — men who claim to be women and women who claim to be men.” Coloradans will pay for “cheek, chin, or nose implants,” “neck skin tightening,” “lip lift or augmentation,” and “laser or electrolysis hair removal” for transgender people, luxury procedures that are not covered for cisgender people.
“They’re forcing us to pay for trans procedures, but insurance will NEVER cover anything for detransitioners” who need their sex-change surgeries reversed, notes Sven Scharpen. “Nope! We practically begged them through our testimonies & amendments to include detransitioners, but they wouldn’t,” notes the head of Protect Kids Colorado.
One woman objected to Colorado’s new law saying, “my 17 year old daughter was just denied a breast reduction. Why? Because the insurance company wants to take her entire breast off, not just a portion. She’s a FFF at 17 (and no she’s not obese). But if she said she was a boy it would be scheduled tomorrow.”
“My hard of hearing daughter will no longer get her hearing aids covered when she turns 18 next year and be forced to spend thousands of dollars out of pocket. But trans identified males can get a boob job” under Colorado’s new law, notes another person.
“There has got to be a political TV ad opportunity here” for conservative legislative candidates who oppose the bill, given its unfairness, says a critic of the bill. “Feature a woman who had to pay for her own breast implants after a double mastectomy due to breast cancer giving her opinion on [transgender] biological men who will now get the same for free” under Colorado’s new law,
A woman lamented, “I don’t mind paying for actual healthcare…but not ‘choices’ like elective cosmetic surgery. No one is paying for my ‘age affirming’ face lift…or a [cisgender] woman’s breast implants [to look more feminine]. I respect choices made by consenting adults, but I don’t want to pay for their choices.”
Democrats boast that the bill “codifies health insurance coverage for gender-affirming care.” But some “gender-affirming care” can cause harm. 95% of young transgender people on testosterone — a form of gender-affirming care — develop pelvic floor dysfunction; most have bowel issues and sexual dysfunction. The Telegraph newspaper reported that “87 per cent” of young transgender people on testosterone “had urinary symptoms such as incontinence, frequent toilet visits and bed-wetting, while 74 per cent had bowel issues including constipation or being unable to hold stools or wind in. Some 53 per cent suffered from sexual dysfunction…Almost half had an ‘orgasm disorder’, while a quarter suffered from pain during sexual intercourse.”
Even researchers who back “gender-affirming care” have admitted that it increases rather than reduces the risk of suicide. The FDA notes that puberty blockers can cause brain swelling and vision loss, and an FDA official who supported giving minors puberty blockers conceded that they actually increase suicidality. Indeed, the “FDA knew ‘gender affirming’ puberty blockers increase ‘suicidality’ in 2017,” reported Just the News.
The nation’s leading transgender lawyer defending gender transitions for minors — the ACLU’s Chase Strangio — conceded to the Supreme Court that “there is no evidence…that this treatment reduces completed suicide.” A 2024 study in the Cureus Journal of Medical Science found that sex changes massively increase suicide risks, rather than reducing them.
