Sandra Fluke Argued for Mandatory Coverage for Sex-Change Surgery

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Rather belatedly, we are becoming aware that this supposedly typical Georgetown coed is not very typical at all:

[B]irth control is not all that Ms. Fluke believes private health insurance must cover. She also, apparently, believes that it is discrimination deserving of legal action if “gender reassignment” surgeries are not covered by employer provided health insurance. She makes these views clear in an article she co-edited with Karen Hu in the Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law.
The title of the article . . . is “Employment Discrimination Against LGBTQ Persons” and was published in the Journal’s 2011 Annual Review.

Remember, as Byron York previously reported, Fluke was rejected as a last-minute substitute witness at a Feb. 16 committee hearing because staffers for Chairman Issa were unable to discover Fluke’s claim to expertise relevant to the subject of the hearing. This law school journal article is the sort of thing that might have been discovered about Fluke’s background, had the Democrats who put Fluke forward as a witness done so with the usual 72-hour advance notice. Here’s one brief quote from the article:

Transgender persons wishing to undergo the gender reassignment process frequently face heterosexist employer health insurance policies that label the surgery as cosmetic or medically unnecessary and therefore uncovered.

Now, imagine Fluke trying to defend this language about “heterosexist” policies in a public hearing, with Republican members of the committee questioning her about whether religious institutions (or private businesses, or taxpayers) should also be required to foot the bill for “gender reassignment.”

Congratulations, America: You’ve been scammed!

UPDATE: Dan Collins at The Conservatory points out that the Obama administration is already providing illegal immigrants with “hormone treatments for transgendered people.”

Of course, this only makes sense. We wouldn’t want these foreign transpeople to go back to wherever they (illegally) came from and say that they’d been the victims of American “heterosexism,” would we? Then President Obama would have to issue another apology to the foreigners we had victimized.

UPDATE II: Welcome, Mark Levin radio listeners! A few words by The Great One certainly did kick the online traffic into high gear.

UPDATE III:  Linked by Evil Blogger Lady, and there is now a Memeorandum thread, aggregating further coverage by LifeNews.com, Nice Deb, Protein Wisdom, Hot Air, National Review, Riehl World View and The College Conservative.

Also linked by Bob Belvedere’s Camp of the Saints.

UPDATE IV: Ed Driscoll dubs this “Flukeaquiddick.”

UPDATE V (Smitty): click the Site Meter screen cap for Memeorandum thread.

Stacy wishes to clarify that the hours of 19-2100 on this chart are due to the awesomeness of Mark Levin. Any resemblance to a gesture telling James Wolcott that he is #1 is strictly coincidental.


141 comments

  4. If there was ever someone approaching a valid argument for such, it might be one whose behavior resembles hers.
    (Did I depersonalize that enough?)

  5. This, this is why we should never listen to those who tell us to stop with the “social issues”. Because they won’t.

    It would be a pre-emptive surrender to people like Sandra Fluke – a committed “social issues” liberal; who embedded herself at Georgetown for the specific issue of forcing employers to fund that with which they morally disagree.

  6. Why you’ve depersonalized so much it approaches a generalization. I’m so outrageously outraged!

  8. This story just keeps getting better and better. It’s like kicking over rocks to find all the slime. For an inconsequential sideshow we’re supposed to ignore, it sure is revealing a lot of consequential concepts.

    Perhaps lemonade will be coming from the lemon. I think this may well become the Wellstone Memorial Moment of 2012.

  16. America’s political landscape as become a combination of libertine individualism and collectivism/socialism.
     
    Double-minded
    citizens demand that the Government stay out of their bedroom while
    simultaneously demanding Government collect taxes or force others to pay
    for contraception, abortions, sex-change operations, and experimental drugs to combat
    sexually-transmitted diseases. 
     
    Supposedly, “everyone has a
    right to live exactly as he or she pleases, but if something goes
    wrong, some abstraction called ‘society’ is to blame and must pay the
    bill for damages.”  The pervasive paradigm extends into financial realms
    and government as well.  Governments, at all levels, are free to live
    beyond their means using borrowed or counterfeit money, then either
    default or pass the damages on to taxpayers, property owners, or
    USDollar holders.  The savings and loan debacle of the 1980s and the
    more recent Wall Street/derivatives contagion were not isolated
    incidents but rather examples of the delusional character of American
    thought (Phillip Johnson).

  18. RE: this article – “Stacy McCain is exactly right…” – Mark Levin on The Mark Levin Show 3/5.

  22. We really need to think about re-electing some one who has a grasp on ethics and how our country was founded on truth and morals

  23. Welcome to The Witch Hunt…The Left has really been on the rampage as of late…While they say nothing about the ridiculous comments made against Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachman and Laura Ingraham, they gladly devise a ruse to DESTROY Rush Limbaugh for making the same comments made by Ed Schulz and other Left-Wing “media” personnel…All I know is this…Miss Fluke…you are like the cockroaches that crawled out of the wood work to destroy Herman Cain…you are a fluke…a fly-by-nighter…and opportunist and a canard…you have a dictionary to look up those words?…St. Peter will also have a couple of questions for you…

  26. After we find out everything we should have known in the first place, maybe “slut” was too kind a word for her.  Just sayin… Let’s get away from the subject, she’s had her 15 minutes and then some. She cannot destroy Rush, she can only make him stronger.

  27. I must now formally apologize to Anonymous Drivel for my chosen arrangement of Unicode characters which have so harshed your mellow.

  28. This woman is insane. I knew there would be more coming out about her. She is leftist radical who lives in a sadistic psycotic world. By the end of the week, Ameria will be apologizing to Rush.

  31. Kinda like the Shirley Sherrod story… the Left gets Outrageously Outraged, and then Breitbart discovers Sherrod’s part of a conspiracy to defraud all Americans of tens of millions of dollars.

    Had Rush not responded, Fluke would’ve been able to maintain her persona as Innocent Law Student and no one beyond a few rightish bloggers would have investigated her background.

  33. I suspected this as a set up from the beginning.  It was too easy, to clean too neat.  And unfortunately Rush bit the hook.

  35. This is why they tried to sneak her into Issa’s hearing without having a chance to check her out. 

  36. Social issues are a win-win for the nihilist Left; they both tie up the news cycle on matters which should be private, and distract from the unmitigated incompetence of #OccupyResoluteDesk.

  37. Double-minded citizens demand that the Government stay out of their bedroom while simultaneously demanding Government collect taxes or force others to pay for contraception, abortions, sex-change operations, and experimental drugs to combat sexually-transmitted diseases. 

    The purpose of such Postmodern swill is to destroy rational thought, and replace our free people with an emotionally driven mob.

  39.      The only words that Rush should apologize for is, “I sincerely apologize”. He was right to attck this vicious shill with satire, and I’ll admit that it was the funniest bit he’;s done in years. 

  41. Rush’s batting average is still stratospheric, and the apology/rejection just fuel the blowback.
    If the Left wants to get a little dry and sun-bleached on this beach, we should oblige.

  42. The Left is purely tactical. They figure they can score their points, own the news cycle, knock out sponsors, and then figure out some more nonsense to deal with the fallout.

  43. Here in lies the problem, the left would have figured this out 15 min after a similar attack from the other side. Are we that underfunded or that unfocused that it takes 3 or 4 days to uncover this. We have to focus, it’s not just about the issues and a “better” intellectual argument, it’s about attacking with absolute vigor, or as I say to my team (I actually work for a living), it’s about a commitment to “Ruthless Execution”. Trust me, this is how the other side thinks.

  44. […] for free gender reassignment surgery too! She's a total activist.. and I bet she's a queer too! Sandra Fluke Argued for Mandatory Coverage for Sex-Change Surgery : The Other McCain Bottom line, this is still about OWEbalmer trying to usurp authority he doesn't have to mandate […]

  45. Looks like your buddy Dan Reihl isnt the only blogger that Mark Levin is paying attention too.  At 2hrs 50 min (you can listen to the free replay on Levin’s site) he mentions Stacy McCain at least 4 times! 

    AttaBoy! 

    (ELB is right, although you may not have seating on the dias, content is at least one attribute to which you can lay claim.  You and I both are in the same spot more or less.  I have been in the research biz for over 10 years, with 2 front page covers on the leading journal for the ATS but have never been asked to moderate or sit on the dias.  One day maybe?)

  47. And why on earth does it matter what else she believes? Or is this more about scoring points (or trying to) against an individual than actually, y’know, winning the argument?

  49. Pete says it the best “ride right through them they’re as demoralized as hell”. When this is the best you can do, don’t underestimate their desperation. It’s bad, the left is banking on another bumper sticker win, the American people can be fooled once, but It is a rare thing when we get fooled twice.

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