As I mentioned above: Surgery is a huge medical risk for any individual or a government to take on. Every surgery carries with it a risk of death or other serious complications from the anesthesia, infection, the idiosyncrasies of an individual’s physiology, or underlying or unknown medical conditions. It is also…

There should at least be a physical malady. Incarcerated people are already given only limited medical care. They aren’t always able to choose which treatment options are available to them (hell, non-incarcerated people with health coverage aren’t even able to do that), so I can’t really fathom taxpayers footing the…

I’m not a doctor, but I’m sure there are plenty.

No, mental health coverage is appropriate for all prisoners, trans or not.

In prison, though? I highly doubt that many states are paying for prisoners to have elective surgeries, and if they are, I’d have to question that choice.

I didn’t say anything about prescription medicines, and I doubt the prison system is paying for dental services that don’t involve diseased teeth (cavities, periodontal disease, root canals, etc.). If taxpayers are footing the bill for teeth whitening, then yeah, I have a problem with that.

What other conditions are there in which a body/body part is still functional but not doing invasive surgery on it would be considered inhumane?

I can’t get on board with taxpayers footing the bill for sex re-assignment surgery. However someone feels about their body, it is still functional, and there is no guarantee that surgery will solve their dysphoria or that it won’t lead to other complications. I think 30 years is probably enough time served for a bar…

Agree. It is silly to try to pretend the man never existed or had no impact on the entertainment industry. His impact was enormous, particularly for black people and for stand-up comedy. We can’t change history. It makes as little sense to try to erase the Confederate flag from the General Lee on Dukes of Hazard or to…

It’s not. It was written by an English slave trader, but African-Americans adopted/adapted it.

No. Read today’s NAACP statement. There is no requirement to be black, and several white people have led chapters.

Congrats.

I have black family members who look just like this woman, down to their freckles, and green and blue eyes, though their hair is darker. I wouldn’t have questioned her blackness.

Exactly. What I’m getting at is there wouldn’t be any obvious reason to vet her racial background. There’s nothing precluding a white person from heading an NAACP chapter, so why lie? And if there’s no reason to lie, why investigate her race? I mean, obviously, they have reason to look in the future, but it would have…

WAIT, though. Intheweeds posted what looked like an engagement video on TSB. Maybe this guy isn’t her current husband.

Grandad, you are ON THE CASE. Damn, you are digging up some stuff!

White people can and have (in the distant past) head the NAACP. It would be discriminatory to base the position on her skin color.

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Saw John Waters at Whole Foods in Baltimore several years ago. He’s so slight! And shorter than I expected. I didn’t interact with him, so I shouldn’t be answering your question at all; but here I am. Let’s just say that I didn’t witness any behavior that would detract from all the good assumptions/observations from…

I don’t like it either, but when they constantly affirm and give cover for white Republicans’ basest notions, I gotta say they kinda deserve it.