Duke Raises Student Fees to Pay for Sex.........

homeagain wrote:

Rick wrote:

homeagain wrote: AHEM.....it appears that MANY other universities offer this program, to name a few....CORNELL, STANFORD,HARVARD and here in
Colorado CU and CSU.....Many Univ. of Calf. sites offer this also.....what's your point?.....it appears they are just falling in line with
the rest of the collegiate platform.

Does that mean it makes sense?

Looking at the stats for SUICIDE within the young adult/teenage community......YES, it does. IF the students do NOT have problem
with this addition to their health care, WHY do you? It would be interesting to see if a polling has been done....do you AGREE or
DISAGREE with the additional provision to your health care?

PROGRESSIVE management/institutions understand the physiological and psychological impacts of this issue....and IF the demand was
NOT present,they would NOT be addressing it.JMO

If the question was an honest one "Are you ok with your tuition being raised in order to pay for sex change operations"? My guess is that it would be a resounding NO. And making this about preventing suicide is a huge stretch imo. Young people have been killing themselves for many more reasons than they don't like what sex they were born with. But if it just saves one, right?

I do not have a problem with it. I have compassion. Is Duke really the best place for a potentially tortured soul to get help.



https://www.google.com/search?sourceid= ... university

http://www.susans.org/forums/index.php?topic=79707.0

Personally I don't understand why anyone would change their sex with the current state of technology/healthcare. You won't become a woman, you won't be able to have children.Same if you are going the other way. You aren't becoming the other sex, you are at best only getting halfway there.

YES, Chaz Bono expressed the same sentiment,however, as time passed he elected to BEGIN the process.....because his decision was
to FINALLY be who he felt he was all along.....MALE.......(interesting side note, he told his now 87 year old GRANDMOTHER FIRST, before
he told his mother,Cher.....his grandmother was in FULL agreement/acceptance and his MOTHER CHER was totally trashed and in denial)

Rick wrote: If the question was an honest one "Are you ok with your tuition being raised in order to pay for sex change operations"?

Good question Rick. I could not tell from the article to be sure but it says an increase in "Student fees". Is that a .3% increase in the tuition for everyone or is that a .3% increase in fees just for those students enrolled in the University's health care plan?

“The addition of sexual reassignment surgery with a $50,000 cap makes Duke’s student health care plan one of the most, if not the most, transgender-inclusive plans in the country,”

From a related and linked story:

The official plan is in-line with a Student Government Resolution passed last March that called upon the school to cover sex change operations. The school previously covered mental health care, hormone therapy and breast augmentation and reduction surgery to students who wished to change their gender.

There are 37 universities in America that cover sex change operations, according to TransgenderLaw.org. Emory University is the only other college in the Southeast, besides Duke, to offer sexual reassignment surgery to students.

So after the surgery, he/she would be a Duchess graduate?

Simple solution ----

The free market has choice.

If you don't like it ---- don't go to Duke......

I doubt Pepperdine, Creighton, or Baylor (just to name a few) offer those perks.

bailey bud wrote: Simple solution ----

The free market has choice.

If you don't like it ---- don't go to Duke......

I doubt Pepperdine, Creighton, or Baylor (just to name a few) offer those perks.

:thumbsup:

But do most of Duke's parents and students know they are paying for sex changes?

Is it the responsibility of Duke (or any college or university for that matter) to provide for sex changes? I thought their responsibility was the education of the student.