I want them to get help. I think they need counseling, not gender reassignment.

Their is more to gender then just whats in your pants,the brain can be male or female.

i think getting surgery for huge breats or nose surgery is different.

People who want to get a sex change have suffered all or most of there life.

Maybe you dont understand because you have nobody close to you who is TRANSGENDERED.

Everyone is the same, get over yourself

If its medically necessary and not done for cosmetic reasons, it’s deductible.

Where did I say anything about Foucault?

Nice try.

May I suggest counseling combined with medication. Quickly, before you hurt someone, including your selves.

I don’t usually converse with the irrational, but I’m feeling merciful today.

The entire case is about relieving stress. Stress associated with a mental disorder. GID is a medical disorder that causes the sufferer severe stress. Having a sex-change operation relieves that stress, ergo, it is tax deductible.

Even GLAD recognized this:

“I think what the court is saying is that surgery and hormone therapy for transgender people to alleviate the stress associated with gender identity disorder is legitimate medical care,’’ said Jennifer Levi, a GLAD attorney

By the way, when you called me incompetent and a dunce I came very close to conceding the entire argument.

ROFL.

I read every page of the 139 page decision and understand it perfectly.

I am afraid you did not read my post. If you had you would have noticed my conclusion (emphasis added):

Thus, the O’Donnalbhain standard might be narrowly stated as follows:

The costs of legitimate medical procedures that are designed to relieve the mental suffering that is associated with a generally accepted mental disorder ³ are tax deductible

I clearly did not say that stress relief alone was the standard. Who’s not reading things?

Re Denial of Breast augmentation deduction:

So a man who wants to be a woman only wants one part of womanhood? Come on! It’s obvious the Court didn’t want to open up Pandora’s (no pun intended) box and allow all boob jobs to be deductible.

Re your statement re my statement “about not doubting the petitioner suffers from ‘some sort of disorder’ is offensive and demeaning”

Bev, the “D” in GID stands for disorder, therefore, I must assume you were equally offended by Judge Gale’s use of the word? Of course, that would be silly since the entire justification for allowing a deduction for the costs of a sex-change rests on GID being a disorder.

Anyway, you shouldn’t be so sensitive. Remember the words of Eleanor Roosevelt, “no one can hurt your feelings without your consent.”

And “transphobia?” Good Lord! I don’t fear people who don’t like the genitals with which they were born, I think they need help. And so, apparently, does the Tax Court.

Additionally, your comment about not doubting the petitioner suffers from “some sort of disorder” is offensive and demeaning. GID is a real disease, and the agreed upon treatment is hormone therapy and surgery. This is different than the treatment of a person who suffers from depression. A proper analogy under this case would be allowance of a tax deduction for the costs of antidepressants to the patient who is depressed from body image and low self esteem. Most doctors would not prescribe a nose job for this to every patient who claims it causes them stress. As the opinion details, most doctors would prescribe hormone therapy and genital surgery to those that suffer from GID.

I think the court came to the right decision by limiting the deductible costs to treatment of GID and limits the extension of the deduction to the elective cosmetic surgery portion which only improves appearance. This ruling prevents the slippery slope which you improperly say will now happen from the ruling in this case. I think that as a tax attorney with a forum like this blog, you should at least read the case and give it a fair shake before sensationalizing an impossible slippery slope with this pro-transgender ruling. There is no ‘bignoseaphobia’ in the DSM that is a diagnosable disease which warrants rhinoplasty as the primary treatment. Depression, however, is in the DSM and the treatment is counseling and possibly medication. Your interpretation of the ruling seems to be unjustly fueling the fire of transphobia.

“$25,000 he paid to become a woman,”

“He” paid ? It has nothing to do with stress Einstein. The air is invisible to you yet it is there. Fire is not “magic ” ! You public idiots spewing your stupidity under the guise of information are a hoot.

Any time you want to open air debate I’m up for it. You and your Jesus cult need to be dressed down in public. I can’t wait for the ” So if I think I’m a dog I can be a dog ” argument so many of you submorons spew. Hilarious.