This gives “they” pronouns a whole new meaning
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.
In a unanimous decision released this week, a three-judge panel of the Ontario Court of Appeal confirmed a lower court’s ruling that the novel phallus-preserving surgery qualifies as an insured service under the Ontario Health Insurance Plan. …
In a letter accompanying the request, her doctor said that because K.S. is “not completely on the ‘feminine’ end of the spectrum” it was important for her to have a vagina while maintaining her penis, adding that the Crane Center for Transgender Surgery in Austin, Tx.,”has an excellent reputation” for gender-affirming surgery, “and especially with these more complicated procedures.”
I have heard of this sort of surgery before, as well as a trend for surgery that obliterates the genitalia entirely.
And yet Canada will kill people who are depressed or disabled.
So why is a Canadian court which supports a Canadian health care system suggesting an American medical facility? (and why should such a surgery be covered by health insurance anyway?)
Gives me yet another reason not to live in Texas.
I guess you can have it both ways
In Canada, the government will underwrite your insanity?
Absolutely insane.
It appears that many of us in the West are subject to the whims of the people who are at the farthest, extreme end of the bell curve.
In addition to new legit immigrants from the UK, Scandinavia, and elsewhere in Europe, it looks like we should also anticipate getting a bunch of refugees from Canada.
Words elude me
Well, I might observe that the story explores the depths of human folly.
The statement of justification seemed like a blow against sanity. Fit to be found in “The Bee”, actually.
That oath is no longer operative.
Surgery? Debauched butchery.
Related insanity…(combined with criminality…)
‘Biden regime colluded with the ADL and LGBTQ org GLAAD to secretly labeled American citizens “extremist hate groups” because we believe in biological sex.’—
https://blazingcatfur.ca/2025/04/26/wtf-3928/
IMHO this ruling is the ultimate non-ruling, a sacrifice of principle and logic on the altar of madness. After such a ruling how can there be any limiting principle? If I decide I want surgery to remove my (perfectly serviceable) arms and legs and replace them with machinery, all at the taxpayer’s expense, how can anyone refuse my demand?
It is my suspicion that the deluded wannabe hermaphrodite will also become one of Canada’s assisted suicides. That supposed intelligent jurists could reach the conclusion that, not only is undergoing this mutilation-by-surgeon in the best interests of the victim–oops, I mean patient-but the rest of the citizens of The Great White North, a/k/a “America’s Hat” should pay for it, is mind boggling. In the prescient words of John Derbyshire, “We are doomed.”
And (of course) it doesn’t stop there!
Everything decent and normal (!) is now “right-wing”…
https://instapundit.com/716587/
+ Bonus:
More proof that Trump is a FASCIST…
https://instapundit.com/716591/
Cf. The New Republic’s latest descent into madness, e.g.,
https://newrepublic.com/article/194424/trump-approval-poll-immigration-independents
https://newrepublic.com/article/194429/trump-vance-birth-rates-lead-milk-measles
A misremembered childhood song:
“Don’t cut off her dong, put a hole in the bottom of the she!”
“There’s a hole in the bottom of the sea.” the original
The whole ” gender ideology” thing is a mixture of a cult, invasion of the body snatchers ( so many of our fellow citizens have been brainwashed) and the Western Civilization version of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
They say that science fiction writings have a good record in predicting the future.
I think it’s safe to say that there is no science fiction ever written that would describe today’s gender ideology miasma.
Speaking of Canadians heading to the USA for medical care; over the years there have been several Canadian provincial govt. officials who have traveled to the USA for medical care. Look it up.
Was in Calgary, Alberta on business years ago, and while there a prominent article in the newspaper reported that a some guy suffering from a heart attack was turned away from a hospital emergency room because it was not his “assigned ” hospital.
He died on the way to his “assigned” hospital. (He was in his car, his wife was driving, when this occurred).
I am no fan of the health care system here in the USA (try understanding those insurance “explanation of benefits” notices, which should be more accurately described as “explanation of no benefits”) , but nationalized health as they have in the UK or Canada is even worse.
In the UK many people have private plans even though they are forced to pay into their govt. health plans. I believe this is also true in many countries of Europe that have nationalized health care programs.
Somehow, the USA can provide food to all (via grocery stores) without insurance companies getting involved. Not even the homeless in the USA are starving.
Yet somehow, it is impossible to eliminate insurance companies from the health care business.
And the insurance company “cut” (from patients and hospitals) is their revenue less what they pay out, and this amount is far, far higher than GAAP reported earnings.
There are presently over 11,000 medical insurance codes; I cannot think of any other service to consumers where such a bureaucratic level of complexity is used and which requires thousands of back office / doctor office / hospital office workers to record.
What’s the answer to this
disaster ??
I don’t know.
Somehow, the USA can provide food to all (via grocery stores) without insurance companies getting involved. Not even the homeless in the USA are starving. Yet somehow, it is impossible to eliminate insurance companies from the health care business.
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Risk pooling is a necessity in the realm of medical care and long term care. Not so in re groceries or housing, in regard to which expenditures tend to be fairly predictable throughout the year, information deficits modest, and considerations of amenity important.
I’d say Canada is getting pretty good at having intercourse with itself.