any illness through no fault or choosing of a person that can be life threatening should be treated by the nhs. 50% of all gender dysphoria people have attempted to take their life before the age of 20. Simply because they do not identify outside to the person they really are inside and also because a large part of society can not accept them for who they are and that is not the person with the gender issues fault either. Gender dysphoric people are from all walks of life from low earning incomes to high earning incomes so would have contributed a lot more in tax money to society in their life times than 10,000 for their operation.
Should a person that beats up a transexual because they do not inderstand it or afraid of it, that has not worked all their life when they are capable of working. Instead of contributing to society they have only taken from it all their life. Surely costing the tax payer far more than 10,000. What of these people? There are far more of these people than transgendered costing far more than a mere 1 million over 10 years.
should this person also be given the right to vote against sex change operations being carried out on the NHS budget as well? For if it were not for people like this in society there would be less pressure on the transexual to look so convincing as the sex they identify to be as to avoid any discrimination as they live as how they identify themselves to be. But I must note: the majority of depression is be caused by the fact that they are in the wrong body. Despite any pressure or opposition from tans phobic society. It is this fact that being stuck in the wrong body can make someone a dis functional and un-contributing members of society. If they receive the sex change then they can continue being positively active working members contributing to tax which helps more people of all kinds on the nhs. I would expect they would have payed for the 10,000 cost of operation 10 times over by contributing as an active positive member of society for the remainder of their lives.
if people dis-agree with the sex change operation being carried out on the NHS the only way it will save the tax payer money is to sentence them to taking their own lives. Or force them to pay for it themselves by any means possible. This could mean that they become negative members of society as they are unable to get a normal job as they try to remain true to who they are. They would have to find any means of raising the money to Sex change or take their own life.
Where as if they receive the sex change on nhs I'm sure that by being a positive contributing happy member of society they would undoubtedly cover the 10,000 cost plus much more just by income tax for the remainder of their positive working lives.
when faced with debates as complex as this I don't think people should be so quick to decide unless they are willing to learn a lot more about gender identity dysphoria or any other serious potentially life threatening conditions people are born with through no choice of their own. Everyone has a right to some form of NHS help to improve the quality and well being of their lives wherever possible.
my belief is that is better to use tax payers money to maintain positive contributing members of society that will go on working and contributing ultimately paying for their own treatment and paying for others who need nhs treatment of all kinds. Rather than create negative members of society that won't end up contributing and will end up costing tax payers a lot more over their negative lifetime.
freedom of speech is like having the freedom to express your own identity. Imagine you are not allowed to express your true opinion unless you could raise 10.000 first.
I wish everyone well and good fortune here!