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Emeleigh_Rose t1_j3e30w4 wrote

Reply to comment by Hereforthemadness1 in Does NH cover transgender HRT treatment for people on SSI/medicaid? by NeitherAsk1441

There are lots of health issues that you could say are personal choice. Smoking over-eating and obesitiy, addictions. I'm guessing you don't consider gender dysphoria an actual issue for trans folks or think it's a choice, so you prefer your tax dollars not going to it.

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Hereforthemadness1 t1_j3f3xsu wrote

Frankly things like over eating and smoking shouldn’t be covered by public tax dollars either. Those again, hurt the individual, but not the community, therefore personal issue. The opioid epidemic was directly used against the PUBLIC by the big pharma companies, Purdue in particular. It damages the public as a whole, just look at Manchester if you don’t believe me, obesity and smoking didn’t turn that city into the relative shithole it is now. And (though the company’s themselves should foot the whole bill but we know that isn’t gonna happen) public dollars should be used to help those addicts and fight the inflow of drugs.

Helping obese people, smokers, and trans wishing to transition, is not a “for the betterment of the public” cause, but rather for those individuals themselves.

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zetterbeauty t1_j3eyocv wrote

Look at his profile. He’s your run of the mill bigoted MAGAt.

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Hereforthemadness1 t1_j3f3fsk wrote

See here you go, I didn’t say a single thing against trans people. I entirely encourage someone to express themselves, be it gay, trans, bi, religious beliefs, whatever. I just don’t think the taxpayer dollar should be used to further someone’s own personal beliefs. But I express that, no segregationist talk, no anger, no bigotry at all. Everyone is well within their rights and should have the freedom to pursue whatever happiness they want. But because I think there’s better uses for tax dollars, that makes me a bigot?

Our nation is widely divided on political lines already, and the ease of pressing the “bigot” button, on BOTH SIDES of the political aisle, only divide us futher. Rather then debate, you simply pressed the “he voted for someone else therefore I can never agree” button and took the east way out

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zetterbeauty t1_j3f4gv6 wrote

Saying being trans is a choice is being against trans people. And in your comment further down in the thread, you seemed pretty angry when you eviscerated OP as a teeth gnashed who screeches about oppression, which they didn’t do at any point. There’s no reasoning, much less debating, to be had with you.

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Hereforthemadness1 t1_j3gvslm wrote

When did I say being trans is a choice? If you can show it I will apologize. All I said was it was a personal issue, not a public one, therefore not requiring public funding.

And anger wasn’t any part of that statement, but rather based on the OPs previous comments level of snarkyness and frankly, I have yet to see a trans person who doesn’t act like they are more persecuted then the Jews in Poland circa 1939.

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