Comments on: 17 years on the job in Dallas, Officer Joe became Officer Debbie http://www.transgendertoday.com/2009/11/15/17-years-on-the-job-in-dallas-officer-joe-became-officer-debbie/ Changing One Day at a Time - Transgender News, Information, Education, and Personal Exploration Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:34:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: dglenn http://www.transgendertoday.com/2009/11/15/17-years-on-the-job-in-dallas-officer-joe-became-officer-debbie/comment-page-1/#comment-476 dglenn Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:15:33 +0000 http://www.transgendertoday.com/?p=1474#comment-476 While I find the claim that the cost of covering SRS is "minuscule, compared to the cost of treating anxiety and depression for transsexuals who can’t get the treatment they need", both credible and unsurprising, I'd be happier seeing numbers -- estimates of the cost of treating closet-borne anxiety and depression. If the claim is accurate, quantifying it should make it stronger. (Estimating a dollar value for lost productivity due to the effects of that psychic burden, including suicides resulting from untreated gender dysphoria, would be more difficult, bu can only tip the scales farther in favour of providing SRS as an insurance benefit to those who need it.) Hey, sometimes the kind thing to do is also the less expensive thing to do. OTOH, some health insurance plans exclude even the treatment for anxiety and depression if it's deemed to stem from GID, and that's just plain evil. (Trans people don't choose to be trans any more than cis people choose to be cis; we just get to choose what we do about already being trans.) In any event, best wishes to Officer Debbie Grabowski. While I find the claim that the cost of covering SRS is “minuscule, compared to the cost of treating anxiety and depression for transsexuals who can’t get the treatment they need”, both credible and unsurprising, I’d be happier seeing numbers — estimates of the cost of treating closet-borne anxiety and depression. If the claim is accurate, quantifying it should make it stronger. (Estimating a dollar value for lost productivity due to the effects of that psychic burden, including suicides resulting from untreated gender dysphoria, would be more difficult, bu can only tip the scales farther in favour of providing SRS as an insurance benefit to those who need it.)

Hey, sometimes the kind thing to do is also the less expensive thing to do.

OTOH, some health insurance plans exclude even the treatment for anxiety and depression if it’s deemed to stem from GID, and that’s just plain evil. (Trans people don’t choose to be trans any more than cis people choose to be cis; we just get to choose what we do about already being trans.)

In any event, best wishes to Officer Debbie Grabowski.

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