“Alina S. is a 48 year-old unemployed social welfare recipient” from Dortmund, Germany “who also happens to be both a male-to-female transsexual and intersexed, thanks to what he claims is ‘incomplete gender reassignment,'” notes Eugyppius:
What Alina S. mainly does with his abundant spare time, is sit around and fill out job applications. In the last eight years, he claims to have applied for some 1,600 positions. He needs employers to reject him, because in doing so they give him standing to take them to court on the strength of the General Equal Treatment Act. Invariably, Alina S. alleges some element of discrimination – for example, the omission of a “d” in the job ad indicating that “diverse” applicants are welcome – and according to this amazing article in the Westfalen-Blatt, his lawsuits have seen an astounding 100% success rate.
So far, Alina S. has collected monetary damages from prospective employers in at least 250 cases. That is not a typographical error. This man is a menace who has literally prevailed in hundreds of separate efforts to shake down local, mostly small-time businesses. His winnings average around €1,000, but they can often exceed €3,000 or more. Alina S. has therefore, by the most conservative estimates, drained upwards of a quarter million Euros from the economy of Nordrhein-Westfalen over the course of his career as a professionally aggrieved intersex transtrocity. These payouts are exempt from taxation and cannot be counted against Alina S.’s social welfare payments. What is more, reports suggest that he pursues at least some of his lawfare with legal aid. The German state literally pays him to do this.
One progressive court ruled that a man was entitled to a taxpayer-funded sex change to give him both female and male genitalia, so that he could become a hermaphrodite. “Ontario’s top court has ruled the province must cover the cost of a penile-sparing vaginoplasty for a transgender resident who does not identify as exclusively female or male and who wishes to have both genitalia,” reported Canada’s National Post.
Society pays the bill for sex change surgeries, which sometimes cost over $200,000, because insurers are often required to cover sex changes and gender-reassignment surgery by laws, regulations, or court rulings.
Colorado forces insurers to pay for cosmetic procedures for transgender people, but not cisgender people. 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. Colorado also does not cover the necessary healthcare costs of “detransitioners” who need their sex-change surgeries reversed to live a normal life.
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 [seeking breast implants surgery could] be scheduled tomorrow.”
Transgender treatments have significant side effects. A recent study shows 95% of young biological women on testosterone developed pelvic floor dysfunction. The participants had bladder and bowel symptoms that medics would expect to see in a woman after the menopause.
As the London Telegraph reports, “Around 87 per cent of the participants 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.”
“The researchers said the rate of urinary incontinence, where urine unintentionally leaks, was around three times higher in transgender men than women, affecting around one in four compared to eight per cent of the general female population.”
“Almost half had an ‘orgasm disorder’, while a quarter suffered from pain during sexual intercourse.”
The youngest of the study’s participants was age 18, while the average participant’s age was 28.
Sex changes massively increase suicide risks, rather than reducing them, a study concluded. “Gender-affirming surgery is significantly associated with elevated suicide attempt risks,” according to a study in the Cureus Journal of Medical Science. Hot Air summed up this peer-reviewed study as finding that “suicide risks” are “1200% higher after gender-affirming surgery.”
Sex-change procedures come with serious side effects than can leave transgender people with lifelong pain and discomfort, as a transgender activist conceded in a New York Times op-ed, “My New Vagina Won’t Make Me Happy.” That”s because of the physical pain and discomfort that result from a sex change, and the artificial, subpar nature of the sex organ that doctors create in sex-change surgery. As Andrea Long Chu wrote in that op-ed:
Next Thursday, I will get a vagina. The procedure will last around six hours, and I will be in recovery for at least three months. Until the day I die, my body will regard the vagina as a wound; as a result, it will require regular, painful attention to maintain. This is what I want, but there is no guarantee it will make me happier. In fact, I don’t expect it to.
“Gender affirming” surgery is risky. “An 18-year-old boy died when doctors tried to create a vagina for him using part of his colon. His colon was used because puberty blockers stopped growth of his genitals, which meant there wasn’t enough tissue to do the penile inversion surgery,” notes Chris Elston. A “trans teen died from vaginoplasty complications during landmark Dutch study used to justify child sex changes,” reports The Post-Millennial. “Major complications began within just 24 hours of the surgery.”
Progressives have long made false claims that getting a sex-change or “gender-affirming care” prevents transgender people from committing suicide, but these claims turned out to be false. The transgender lawyer challenging Tennessee’s ban on certain transgender treatments for minors, Chase Strangio, was forced to admit to the Supreme Court that “completed suicide is thankfully and admittedly rare” among transgender youth, even those not given gender-affirming treatment, and that “there is no evidence…that this treatment reduces completed suicide.”
But even 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.
Researchers have found that sex changes massively increase suicide risks, rather than reducing them. “Gender-affirming surgery is significantly associated with elevated suicide attempt risks,” according to that study in the Cureus Journal of Medical Science.
Yet doctors who do sex changes often tell parents that they need to gender transition their kid to keep them from committing suicide, even though this isn’t true. One of America’s most prominent gender doctors, “Dr. Olson-Kennedy disclosed to how she speaks with parents of gender dysphoric patients: ‘We often ask parents, “Would you rather have a dead son than a live daughter?”’”
