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Sandra Fluke in 2011: Mandate Paying for Sex Changes Next

Sep. 5, 2012 11:53am Mytheos Holt

When Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke spoke in front of an informal Congressional hearing organized by House Democrats early this year, only to be slammed by conservatives and labeled a “slut,” a liberal star was born. And now that Fluke is speaking at the Democratic National Convention as something of a war hero, that star looks likely to rise in the Democratic firmament.

But like all sudden, unexpected celebrities, Fluke has baggage. As we’ve already documented, Fluke is a leader of one of the more radically pro-abortion groups in America. However, quite aside from this obvious association, her academic background may also be a potential minefield for social moderates within the Democratic party. Charles C. Johnson of the Daily Caller has already uncovered at least one of the mines Democrats might have to tiptoe around if Flukes continues her ascendancy:

Fluke and co-editor Karen Hu advocated remaking U.S. law to remove what they called a “gender bias” at the root of denying coverage for “transgender medical needs,” describing it as “a prime example of direct discrimination.”

“Transgender persons wishing to undergo the gender reassignment process frequently face heterosexist employer health insurance policies that label [gender-reassignment] surgery as cosmetic, or medically unnecessary and therefore uncovered,” Fluke and Hu wrote for the Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law.

The review article was titled “Employment Discrimination Against LGBTQ Persons” and appeared in print in 2011.

By some estimates, sex change operations can cost between $15,000 and $20,000; the cost for some procedures can be as high as $50,000. Fluke and other advocates want insurers to cover all such operations. In general, assuming the costs of new coverage mandates tends to raise rates for all enrollees in a given health-care plan.

There is precedent for requiring insurers to cover these procedures. In Wisconsin, transgender prison inmates sued in federal court and won under the Eighth Amendment to overturn a law that barred public funding of sex changes. The Supreme Court declined to hear the case in March, allowing the decision to stand.

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While many state legislatures may not be likely to follow suit, Fluke and Hu wrote that they hope left-leaning courts will expand the meaning of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include Americans who do not self-identify with what they call traditional “gender identity” or “gender norms.” The Act prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

Fluke was also thanked and acknowledged in the 2003 book, “Gender, Justice, and Law: From Asylum to Zygote-Issues and Resources for Judicial, Legal, and Continuing Legal Education.“ The book was published by the National Judicial Education Program, a project of the National Organization for Women’s Legal Defense and Education Fund, where Fluke was employed.

That’s right. Fluke doesn’t only want contraception (by many accounts, a relatively low-cost form of medication) foisted on insurance companies by law. She also wants them to be forced to cover sex change operations that could cost up to $50,000. Why? Because not doing so would apparently constitute discrimination against people who feel they were born with the wrong gender, and want to “transition” out of it, hence the word “transgender.”

It is improbable that the Democrats will accept this particular plank of Fluke’s ideology just yet, however it is something to keep in mind when Fluke takes the stage at this week’s DNC.

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msconstrue
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 12:33pm
perhaps the precident has already been set

http://news.yahoo.com/judge-us-state-must-sex-change-surgery-murder-204020261.html.

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- 13th Imam
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 12:48pm
  Sandra wants to have a Addadictomy. Then she can $$$$ herself
  
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- TheEDGE
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 1:20pm
  13th- I’m pretty sure that she already had a lopitoffame a few years back when he still went by the name Andy Fluke.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 2:03pm
  “Fluke and Hu wrote that they hope left-leaning courts will expand the meaning of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964″
  
  Proof that the left knows full well that we are ruled by a black robed aristocracy. Courts are slowly losing legitimacy.
  
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- Whistleblower
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 2:24pm
  Is President Barack Obama being blackmailed ?
  
  http://illinoispaytoplay.com/2012/09/01/is-president-barack-obama-being-blackmailed/
  
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- JRook
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 2:42pm
  Interesting to note that the author did not bother to either purchase the referenced paper or provide any details regarding the context around the legal assertion. If one considers cases of gender identity issues surrounding hormonal imbalances, then it would seem there is a case for providing similar health insurance coverage to that which is provided to the obese patients who have thyroid related issues. Again, to me the issue of coverage would depend on the issue causing the gender identity symptoms. If there gender identity problem was merely a choice than I would say not it should not be covered. In that same feign individuals who are obese due to their own eating habits rather than hormonal issues should similarly be denied health insurance coverage. People need to show the ability to think intelligently beyond their ideology here. But then again, there are more than a few folks here that still assert the earth and everything on it is 10,000 years old. LOL
  
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- theologian3927
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 3:32pm
  Not 10,000 years…. 6,000 is a little more accurate
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 3:37pm
  JRook, is gender identity confusion a hormonal problem?
  
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- The_Cabrito_Goat
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 8:09pm
  Tax payer subsidized sex changes are paramount to civil rights??
  
  HAHAHAHAHAHA
  
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joe1286
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 12:32pm
I would venture to guess that years ago Sandra Fluke was Steve Fluke. Something about the heavy brow and square jaw

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- 226crimsontrace
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 12:39pm
  When I think of sleazy and unattractive, IT”S face is what I see.
  
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- Stelex
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 12:48pm
  Woa woa, lets go with “Sam” Fluke please.
  
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- Fatheroftwo
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 1:46pm
  If we think about from their point of view, none of this would be necessary because they all would be aborted as nonviable people or fetuses or what ever they call murdering babies!!!
  
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- DIR
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 3:33am
  If Fluke want’s to become a guy, one things for sure, she doesn’t need a sex change operation. If she wants to do something productive for the left all she has to do is fasten. to herself, a Hillshire Farms kielbasa and she’d make a great meal for Michael Moore or Barney Frank.
  
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Walkabout
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 12:32pm
Sandra Fluke knows no shame.

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- Wayner
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 1:29pm
  Does “gender reassignment” cause their **** to always look like it’s due for an oil change?
  
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cookcountypatriot
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 12:31pm
why do u think they call her fluke………….shes a fluke

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Kitsune
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 12:30pm
There’s a Method to Flukk’s Madness.

Remember, one of the bigger Pro-Abortion planks is : “We want to be able to kill the baby late term if it looks like it’s going to be a girl”.

This seems odd for a Misandrist, Gender Feminist-Superiority agenda, at first.

Until you remember that there are so many other Progressive Planks that “need” to be tackled.

And as such, the only way to convince emasculated, beaten-down, submitting men that they can be part of the “winning” side? Sex changes, so they can feel like they have an escape route from all the Misandrist propaganda they’ve been inundated with ever since they started school. That they don’t have to be the “Evil, stupid oppressor” anymore. That now they’re enlightened and cosmopolitan and “on the right side of history”.

Or in some cases, some just want to escape the expectations of responsibility and serious-mindedness that comes with being a man. Self-loathing Misandrists performing _Misogyny_, of all things, on their imagined future-”female”-self.

So many levels of wicked screwed-up psychological claptrap, there.

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- teebubba
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 12:47pm
  And the other side of the slippery slope created is that government will force abortions and natural fathers will also as the case law develops.
  
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- Kitsune
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 12:59pm
  I’m starting to believe the idea that Flukk (Fluke, whatever) was originally a man, and chose the name “Sandra” as a cute little nod to “Misandry” (hatred of men).
  
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scrapadapolis
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 12:29pm
fluke her..not me..

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Teufel Hunden
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 12:27pm
L O L A, Lola! This Bitch is simply trying to justify her existence. If this condom thing doesn’t work out, then she’ll come back, at tax payers expense, as something else and try again.

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banjarmon
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 12:26pm
A little research of who Sandra Fluke is….

Fluke, parasitic flatworm of the trematoda class, related to the tapeworm. Instead of the cilia, external sense organs, and epidermis of the free-living flatworms, adult flukes have sucking disks with which they cling to their hosts and an external cuticle that resists digestion by the host. In most species the adult worms absorb nutriment through the digestive system; in a few whose digestive system is reduced or completely absent, food is absorbed through the cuticle. Adult flukes are commonly hermaphroditic, that is, each individual possesses both male and female reproductive organs; however, they reproduce sexually.

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- joe1286
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 12:35pm
  That’s just it. if Fluke would learn to suck she would not need $30,000 a year for rubbers!
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 1:30pm
  If Fluke would realize she has two other orifices, she wouldn’t need the $30K for birth control. Just sayin’…
  
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- floridareader
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 4:54pm
  Oh, be careful! she might feel offended!!! Scary thing. You never know what will come out of her…..
  
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mountainbiker
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 12:25pm
And people wonder why this Country is speeding down the hill into the cesspool of depravity. One day we are going to wake up and this will not be The United States any longer. Thanks to the Liberals we are going to end up like all the other civilizations of the past. Doomed!

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scrapadapolis
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 12:25pm
First off NO WOMAN wants anyone to know she has sex,Second a WOMAN keeps bedtime somewhat private,Third shes a lesbian,Fourth her condoms are not condoms for men but the ones for women called dentidams.which cover the womans parts for oral sex…How do you like the truth sandra?don’t worry being a dummycrap your bones will want out of that closet real quick..

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- floridareader
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 4:56pm
  She might get nice clothes to speak at DNC, but she is no less than a worker in the oldest profession in the history of humankind.
  
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Gonzo
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 12:22pm
Wango, better keep working hard for Obama, maybe you can become the woman you always dreamed of being!

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- Walkabout
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 12:35pm
  If the picture Wango uses in his posts is really him, then I think he is happy with who he is (to an extent) whether that is straight or bi.
  
  If the picture is of a random OWS protesters that is much better looking than Wango, I believe he has deep seated issues.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 12:46pm
  He’s got half a dozen names and pictures, take your pick.
  
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- Zipit
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 12:46pm
  Hmmmm! WANGLESS….. Got a ring to it there GONZ!
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 1:01pm
  If he was posting a year ago, I must have forgotten the picture associated with previous posts.
  
  I’ll go with option #2., He has deep seated issues similar or exactly like the Third_Archon.
  
  If he had been a young twenty motivated something with OWS, there was some small hope that he would eventually find his way, work hard & be successful.
  
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nosharia
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 12:18pm
..and the Dems somehow think she is representative of the lack of family values they pretend to endorse?

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ginger100
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 12:18pm
If I peed in the ladies room, would you guy’s mind if I didn’t raise the toilet seat?

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Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 12:17pm
If someone game up to my wife or daughter and offered to buy her condoms I cannot say what I would do to them..

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SPIN_MD
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 12:16pm
It makes perfect sense now…the man-like face and hands and the wide shoulders. The thing I don’t understand is why she testified in front of Congress. Transgender “women” don’t need contraception. There is absolutely no way ever they can get pregnant…ever. They are NOT women.

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Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 12:11pm
Nearly 100% of all people on the planet would laugh at her if she came up to them in a bar and asked them to buy her a condom. I do not want the Gubment saving a $1.00 for whoever is plugging her! Not on my behalf. Sterilization- yes. bucket of condoms- NO!

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capitalismrocks
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 12:10pm
Going down a very dangerous path here….

Abortion is an elective surgery, unless during the actual birth, the mother’s health suddenly is in jeopardy and the doctor is unable to use any other means to save both the mother and baby, then something would have to be done, otherwise abortions are elective.

Sex change is totally elective, I don’t care about the whole “mental health” argument, go take some zoloff and buy some high heels and a padded bra or for the other way around, cut your **** and buy some illegal steroids or whatever.

If you go down this route of making a mandate of elective surgeries, then breast implants, **** transplants, penis enlargement and so forth will all have to be covered as well, this will bankrupt the entire medical health system and funds and resources for emergent care will dry up and people will die from REAL health issues, but surgical cosmetic changes.

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- Coelitus
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 12:21pm
  Exactly. I was just about to type the same thing.
  
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- cemerius
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 12:38pm
  These people have ONE agenda and that is the total destruction if the United States from within!!
  
  Their BIGGEST problem is they think that they can control this chaos and become the politburro!!
  
  Only thing stopping that is the pesky 2nd amendment to the US Constitution!! Can’t control the masses when they are armed…….EVEN if the entire military infrastructure was to be unleashed onto the American civilian population they would be swallowed up by the gun owners of America!! I know for a fact that there are quiet a lot of military members that will walk if they are ordered to attack American citizens on American soil!!!
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 1:34pm
  I think that is the point. Bankrupt the private healthcare system. Collapse the system. Then, when “those greedy insurance companies” close their doors and stop covering people for their elective surgeries, then the govt can swoop in and save the day with public healthcare. Yaaaaay…. *sigh*.
  
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paulwbrown
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 12:05pm
We are already there. A state court recently ruled that a convicted murderer serving a life sentence will be given a sex change operation, tax payer paid. If a lifer has the right to the operation, I can imagine it being ruled that anyone who wants a sex change operation will have a right to it at tax payer expense.

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- DarkJello
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 12:10pm
  And the insanity continues.
  
  The United Circus of America!! :|
  
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- pissantno.10
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 4:39pm
  and guess what state it was
  
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MODEL82A1
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 12:03pm
The Slut Fluke is obviously being groomed for high political office in the Democrat party.

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MrKnowItAll
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 12:03pm
Still remember the great Greek guy I used to work for because he always had a hard time picking up gals. He came to work and started his story of a girl that was attracted to him at the bar. They left together and parked on a dark road. Then he said I reached up her dress and She had the same thing I did! He stated this person ran out terrified of what he could be yelling in Greek. Now this is where personal responsibility should come in. My Greek friend with his inability to attract woman, just might have footed the bill before leaving with this person that night.

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Tri-ox
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 11:58am
If obama’s FLUKE had a taxpayer-funded sex change, what sex would she be?

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- Tri-ox
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 12:03pm
  If obama’s FLUKE had a taxpayer-funded sex change, what sex would SHE?/HE? be?
  
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CLEttinger
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 11:58am
Let me get this straight… She wants me to pay for her prophylactics and her wiener? She is quite insane.

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- CatB
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 12:03pm
  Hey Sandra .. go FLUKE yourself … yes she is insane … seems to be a requirement to RISE in stature in the current regime.
  
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GhostOfJefferson
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 11:57am
Not a request that is authorized for Federal action according to the Constitution. Sorry dear, you’ll have to settle with remaining a Professional Victim.

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huey6367
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 11:57am
Yep, she is in college. And appaently smoking some really good green stuff. She is delusional. Can you imagine her as a politician?

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- Cry_Havoc
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 12:19pm
  Yes. Absolutely. But only as a leftist.
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 1:36pm
  Professional student, perpetual ideologue, no brains.
  
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PapaJohannesPatriot
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 11:56am
I guess Sandra is planning to dump her sweetheart and make the change. Golly! Then she won’t need that free birth control.

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