{"id":1644031,"date":"2022-09-16T18:49:38","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T22:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1644031"},"modified":"2022-09-16T18:52:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T22:52:47","slug":"taxpayers-are-funding-surgeons-to-play-dr-frankenstein-on-nonbinary-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/taxpayers-are-funding-surgeons-to-play-dr-frankenstein-on-nonbinary-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxpayers Are Funding Surgeons To Play Dr. Frankenstein On \u2018Nonbinary\u2019 Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftaxpayers-are-funding-surgeons-to-play-dr-frankenstein-on-nonbinary-patients%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1644031&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Bizarre alternative genital surgeries are being offered to patients who identify as \u201cnonbinary\u201d in surgery centers across the country, and some states are letting taxpayers foot the bill. These surgeries, which represent custom alternatives to more \u201ctraditional\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/transgender\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">transgender<\/a>-related genital surgeries, include sex nullification, penis-preserving vaginoplasty, and vaginal preservation with metoidioplasty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNonbinary\u201d is a popular identity under the transgender \u201cumbrella\u201d for individuals who reject both masculine and feminine stereotypes and social roles. Over one million adults in the U.S. identify as \u201cnonbinary,\u201d according to a 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu\/publications\/nonbinary-lgbtq-adults-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UCLA survey<\/a>. As the transgender umbrella expands to include the ever-growing list of gender identities \u2014 such as demiboy, eunuch, gendervoid, maverique, neutrois, etc. \u2014 plastic surgery centers are offering customizable surgeries that cater to them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe understand that some patients will not be looking specifically for binary surgeries. For gender diverse, expansive, nonbinary patients; we offer individualized surgical options. Examples include penile preservation vaginoplasty, vaginal preservation with metoidioplasty and nullification,\u201d reads the MoZaic Care <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozaiccare.net\/gender-nonconforming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a>, a surgery center in San Francisco that specializes in genital surgeries for transgender and \u201cnonbinary\u201d patients.<\/p>\n<p>Nullification surgery, sometimes referred to as a \u201cKen doll\u201d surgery or nulloplasty, \u201cremoves external genitalia while preserving a urethral opening and anal opening,\u201d according to the MoZaic Care <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozaiccare.net\/nullification\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a>. While nullification is most often marketed to males, MoZaic offers it to both sexes. \u201cIf the patient was born with a penis, the penis will be removed in addition to both testicles and the scrotum,\u201d reads MoZaic\u2019s website.\u200b \u201cIf the patient was born with a vagina, the vagina will be removed in addition to the clitoris and labia.\u201d Recipients of nullification surgery sometimes refer to themselves as a \u201cnullo\u201d or \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nullo_(body_modification)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">smoothie<\/a>\u201d to denote the \u201csmoothness\u201d of their genital area after the procedure.<\/p>\n<p>As one man who received a nullification surgery <a href=\"https:\/\/www.queerty.com\/nullo-man-felt-masculine-better-sex-getting-penis-removed-20181229\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">explained<\/a>, \u201cBasically for the nullification surgery, they remove the testicles, the scrotum, and the penis, and they essentially just sew the skin up into a very tight vertical line which kind of fades away. If the surgeon\u2019s great, there\u2019s no scar at the end of it, and they relocate the urethra down to kind of between your legs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Penile preservation vaginoplasty \u2014 offered to males \u2014 and vaginal preservation with metoidioplasty \u2014 offered to females \u2014 are custom surgeries that allow the individual to obtain the \u201chermaphrodite look\u201d and have the appearance of both male and female genitalia at the same time. Penile preservation vaginoplasty, or as MoZaic calls it, a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozaiccare.net\/peritoneal-pull-through-vaginoplast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Phalgina<\/a>,\u201d differs from a more traditional vaginoplasty as it does not involve a penectomy (surgical removal of the penis) and uses the genital tissue from the scrotum via orchiectomy (removal of the testes) to create a pseudovagina.<\/p>\n<p>More \u201ctraditional\u201d transgender surgeries are also offered, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozaiccare.net\/hysterectomy-faqx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hysterectomies<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozaiccare.net\/vaginoplasty-faqs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vaginoplasties<\/a> that are available for minors as young as 15, so long as they are emancipated or \u201clive apart from [their] parents or guardians, and manage [their] own financial affairs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the MoZaic website, federally funded insurance plans require a minimum age of 21 to receive sterilizing genital surgeries. \u201cFederally funded (have Medi-cal or Medicaid) patients, must be 21 years of age to undergo elective sterilization surgery,\u201d the pages for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozaiccare.net\/vaginoplasty-faqs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vaginoplasty<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozaiccare.net\/hysterectomy-faqx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hysterectomy<\/a> FAQs read. Eighteen-year-olds can obtain sterilizing genital surgeries if done through private insurance or paid for out-of-pocket.<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco Health Plan, a form of Medi-Cal, and Blue Cross Covered California, another state-sponsored insurance, are a few of the accepted insurance options at MoZaic. California law prohibits insurance companies from denying medical insurance benefits for transgender-related care. In 2021, $13 million was allocated to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.translatinacoalition.org\/press\/2021\/8\/3\/historic-funding-of-13-million-dollars-to-the-transgender-wellness-and-equity-fund-by-governor-newsom-announced\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Transgender Wellness and Equity Fund<\/a> in the state budget that California Governor Gavin Newsom signed off on to fund these services. While prior authorization from a physician is required, transgender and \u201cgender diverse\u201d patients are rarely denied and many <a href=\"https:\/\/transequality.org\/know-your-rights\/medicare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">advocacy groups<\/a> assist people in appeals to any Medicare denials.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Heidi Wittenberg is the director of MoZaic and boasts about having\u00a0 performed hundreds of genital surgeries. Dr. Adam Bonnington is another surgeon at MoZaic who celebrated his 100th vaginoplasty in April of this year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-438497\" class=\"wp-image-438497\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/photo-output.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"712\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/photo-output.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/photo-output-300x225-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/photo-output-767x576-1.jpg 767w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/photo-output-768x577-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/photo-output-1536x1154-1.jpg 1536w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-438497\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshots from the @mozaic_care Instagram account<\/p>\n<p>Wittenberg is also the Medical Director of The Gender Institute at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital (SFMH), where \u201cGender Expansive\/Non-binary Procedures\u201d that include nullification surgery, penile preserving vaginoplasty, and vaginal preserving metoidioplasty are also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dignityhealth.org\/bayarea\/locations\/saintfrancis\/services\/gender-institute\/services-and-providers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">offered<\/a>. SFMH, through Dignity Health, accepts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dignityhealth.org\/bayarea\/locations\/saintfrancis\/patients-and-visitors\/for-patients\/insurance-plans-accepted\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">various forms<\/a> of state-sponsored health care plans and assists patients in linking them with federal funding to foot their genital surgery bill.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cIf you need help paying your bill, you may qualify for a government-sponsored program or Dignity Health Payment Assistance Program that may cover some or all of your balance,\u201d according to Dignity Health\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dignityhealth.org\/my-care\/billing-help-and-faq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Billing Help and FAQs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Surveys report that around one in four transgender and \u201cnonbinary\u201d people choose \u201cgender affirmation\u201d surgery,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bizarre alternative genital surgeries are being offered to patients who identify as \u201cnonbinary\u201d in surgery centers across the country, and some states are letting taxpayers foot the bill. These surgeries, which represent custom alternatives to more \u201ctraditional\u201d transgender-related genital surgeries, include sex nullification, penis-preserving vaginoplasty, and vaginal preservation with metoidioplasty. \u201cNonbinary\u201d is a popular identity &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1644033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1644031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1644031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1644033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1644031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1644031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1644031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}