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CMV: Subsidized gender assignment surgery should take a backseat to critical life saving surgery.

I believe that government subsidized health care is critical to having a healthy and productive nation (I'm Australian FFIW). However I believe that the focus of this should be on attempting to prevent acute deaths and performing critical transplant surgeries, directly not indirectly saving lives, as opposed to improving the quality of life for a very slim minority of the population.

I am aware of the increased incidence of mortality as a consequence of mental health issues suffered by the transgender collective, however their specific needs are very narrow and for every surgeon that specializes in gender reassignment we have a specialist who doesn't specialize in cardiac surgery, or oncology, or transplant surgery, or pediatric acute care. 

For every transgender person requiring very specialized care that isn't being provided there are dozens of people who require care that isn't being provided but is comparable to many more others in their situation, there is an economics of scale in treating those dozens in lieu of treating the few.
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It costs perhaps 13k Australian dollars for SRS surgery for mtf and it reduces the suicide risk from 40% to 4%.

Lifetime treatment costs for cancer range from about 3k for melanoma to 60k for leukemia, average 17k.

Given the expensive nature of being trans, since a lot of them try to kill themselves, it's quite cost effective to fix those issues with SRS. 40% of those with leukemia die every five years, their health and physical effectiveness sharply drops. A trans person who you fix with SRS can be a productive civilian for much longer.

Cancer treatment is also a very different specialism from doing sex reassignment surgery. Typically a urologist will do that. They do things like treat erectile dysfunction, deal with kidney stones, deal with overactive bladders, handle infection of the bladder. There's no real shortage of urologists. Re modelling genitals is already quite common since people often injure their genitals.