A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica erects new roadblocks to care for veterans with the rare but deadly cancer. The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive order about “restoring biological truth” in government.
“I’ve got nipples, Greg. Can you medically obfuscate my diagnosis?”
This is why anti trans ideology hurts everyone eventually
Men have mammary glands. They are just underdeveloped. If given the right combination of hormones, a man would be able to produce milk, albeit very little. We all have breasts. Some are just bigger than others. Cancer doesn’t care how big your mamms are, though.
Cancer doesn’t care how big your mamms are, though.
It kind of does, but only quantitatively. The bigger the more likely. But yeah even cis males with relatively normal hormone levels do get breast cancer sometimes.
The article seems to be saying that the VA is no longer classifying breast cancer in men as a “reproductive organ” cancer, and therefore it’s no longer eligible for automatic coverage in some contexts the way that other cancers of the reproductive system are. I’m not sure why this is an issue, because I’ve never heard of any ideological claims about male breasts which the Trump administration might wish to oppose.
I suspect they’re dumb enough to think the combination of the word “male” with “breast” is radical woke leftist trans DEI feminist gay communist ideology that threatens the very existence of real traditional straight cis white Christian wife-beating beer-guzzling gun-toting truckosexual men.
the VA is no longer classifying breast cancer in men as a “reproductive organ” cancer
That’s a political, not a scientific, classification. Women without breasts can still reproduce, so breasts are not reproductive organs in a strict sense for either of the main genders.
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I lost a close male relative to breast cancer and he had been in the US Navy. It can happen to anyone and with men, it’s often not diagnosed until it’s too late due to the stigma and general lack of awareness that it’s a thing.
Mom, a former-nurse, who ended-up working in Canada’s federal-disability program as its chief file-fixer,
told me that breast-cancer gets both women & men,
but because in men it’s got sooo little distance to critical-organs, it is much less survivable, for men, on average.
By the time you discover it, … usually it’s too-late, & you’re a goner.
Typical sadism, by the ideologues’ part, it is…
This is going to get FAR worse, & it isn’t going to “get better”.
Humankind’s running-away-from responsibility is an addiction, & it’ll just keep fighting for its totalitarian-dominion.
Ever seen a addict fighting against their unconscious-mind’s junk-addiction, when their unconscious-mind’s addiction’s committed to breaking their life, to “prove who’s BOSS”, & they … just get destroyed, & dead?
Humankind’s doing that, globally…
it isn’t quite obvious-enough, yet, but in a few more years, there won’t be any more “time for thinking”, because it’ll all be reacting-time, to the rampaging ideologies that are highjacking everything…
People who reject evidence, gaslighting about “biological truth”…
Typical…
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This isn’t about humanity in general, except in the sense that we’re not taking the necessary steps to prevent sociopaths from ever getting near positions of authority.
