What Are Your Thoughts On This?

[cassa333]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/health-46634595/should-the-nhs-pay-for-transgender-fertility-treatment

My belief is that no. They should not pay for transgender fertility treatment.

[gingejbee]

NHS shouldn't pay for ANY fertility treatment, IMO.

[-Talbot-]

No.

[Baldric]

Absolutely NO Way!

[ToraToraTora]

no the nhs should not be paying for any of this TG stuff. For that matter they should not be doing any fertility treatment full stop. There's no shortage of people. If people want those things they can pay privately.

[MallyJ]

with gingjebee on this subject......if, for whatever reason, you can't have your own children then adopt....simple.

[dannyk13]

The NHS should not pay for any elective cosmetic surgery.

[sanmac]

Transgender fertility treatment? Of course not...The NHS shouldn't even pay for it for normal people.

[Peter Pedant]

I saw the viddie on this and had difficulty with gurlz you know with busty substances (*) out front
saying things like
I want to father a child ....

because he was a fella once -

[Peter Pedant]

oh er (*)
with thanks to Pete and Dud ..... 1960s

[MWG14]

Absolutely not.

[marval]

No they shouldn't.

[Rosetta]

no they shouldn't. It also calls into question the idea of chemically delaying puberty in children who have gender issues

[jakep]

It’s another no from me.

[cassa333]

Rosetta, you have a good point. If the transgender extremists want to delay puberty to allow the supposed transgender child to become the opposite gender that will effect fertility far more than anything else.

[sp1814]

Yes.

This amount of money to the NHS is negligible compared to what the NHS has to spend on treating diseases caused by smoking, over-eating, drinking, drug-taking and driving like an idiot.

If we deny these fertility treatments then we should deny every other treatment that has a preventable cause.

The issue is - it's fashionable to shout about transgender people but if we were honest, we should focus our attention on smokers first. The cost of smoking to the NHS in England in 2015 was £2.5billion.

The cost of IVF in the UK is usually around £5,000 per cycle of treatment. Women under 40 can be offered up to three cycles of IVF if they've been trying to conceive for more than two years without success or they have had 12 cycles of artificial insemination and this hasn't worked.

It's worth remembering, however, that local Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) will also have their own criteria to add to this.

Total health spending in England was around £125 billion. The banning of transgender fertility treatments is not going to impact this figure.

And it would be morally wrong too.

[sanmac]

Save the word "gender" for discussions regarding grammar. There are two sexes, and it's quite easy to differentiate between them.

[Prudie]

No. NHS funding should be used for sickness/diseases - even self-inflicted through smoking, drinking or driving too fast - such people are ill. Nice to haves/wants should not be included for any sex.

[dunnitall]

Agree with Prudie.....it's a no from me....illness, disease and life threatening problems need the money. I don't even agree with IVF....if one is meant to have children then it should natural....unfortunate if it's not, it is life.

[Canary42]

I presume all you "ill treatment only" enthusiasts would bar flu jabs since the recipients aren't actually ill, it's just a "nice to have"

[dunnitall]

Canary ....no that's prevention....that's different to the OP QUESTION! Transgender and IVF is not imperative nor prevention.....different things IMO.