Hahaha!!! From this morning’s Coffee and Covid.
“Biden and DeSantis were responding to a new bill filed in Florida this week by Republican Florida State Senator Blaise Ingoglia, titled “Employer Coverage of Gender Dysphoria Treatment.” Hilariously — BUT JUSTLY — the proposed law would require any employer who pays for employees gender transitions to also pay for their DE-TRANSITIONING surgeries and medical care if they later change their mind.
Hahahaha! It’s brilliant! Here’s the main bit from the proposed law, SB 952:
An employee who received gender dysphoria treatment through coverage provided by an employer is entitled to full coverage by that employer of the total costs associated with treatment that reverses gender dysphoria treatment if the employee later determines that the gender dysphoria treatment was not appropriate for him or her and wants to reverse the treatment, regardless of whether the person is currently employed by that same employer at the time of such determination.
Who can reasonably argue with this? It’s perfectly fair. If it’s critical for employers to support people slipping on the “right” gender, then it’s just as important to thrust them back into the prior gender when they find out their selected surgery didn’t quite resolve their gender dysphoria, but instead delivered a pallet of new, unanticipated problems.
Even though Florida has already discouraged radical gender surgeries, the proposed law would spray herbicide on new laws sprouting up like weeds in psychotic states like California, which incentivize medical tourism for gender-bending treatments. “Woke businesses need to be held accountable when offering to pay for gender-affirming surgeries in other states, such as California, because they are nothing more than political decisions masquerading as healthcare and human resource decisions,” Senator Ingoglia explained.
If SB 952 becomes law, woke corporations like Disney trying to curry cheap virtue-signaling points by offering a fig leaf of transitioning support, say by limiting transition coverage to $15,000 or something, but they would also be hooked under the proposed law for the ENTIRE unlimited cost of reversing transitions if they doesn’t work, and regardless of whether or not the employees still work there.
In other words, they’ll be on the hook FOREVER.
One suspects that an employer who could potentially be permanently liable for unlimited costs of de-transitioning might want to make SURE that an employee would REALLY benefit from castration and breast mutilation, and wasn’t just crazy as a sprayed roach.
In other words, put your money where your flapping pie-hole is, Disney. As Disney’s Mandalorians would say, This is the Way.
A note to Senator Imbroglia: I would suggest three amendments.
First, add a provision that an employee cannot waive this right or indemnify the employer through contract, since employers may try to skirt the law by having employees sign something when they apply for transition coverage.
Second, whenever an employer provides transition coverage for employees’ kids, require de-transitioning support for those minor children as well.
Finally, we might as well require employers to cover employees’ unanticipated side-effects from the transition procedures, since the procedures are basically experimental in nature.”
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