No Problem But You Pay It Act (Failed)

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

Nay (appalled (normal)).

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

AYE

Why do you think trans people should pay through the nose for necessary medical treatment? I'm surprised, Sen. Goldwater, especially with your social score and alleged libertarian views.

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

AYE

Why do you think trans people should pay through the nose for necessary medical treatment? I'm surprised, Sen. Goldwater, especially with your social score and alleged libertarian views.

Because I consider it an elective surgery and think that people should pay for their own elective surgeries. I realize that both of those views are outside of the mainstream here and honestly I don't really care much about this issues, but there you go.

I admire your honesty, Senator, but do you know any trans people? Do you know what it's like to be transgender? Because it seems to me like the answers to those questions are no.

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

The fact that you don't care that people are being denied their right to exist as who they actually are by way of not having the money to pay for this kind of operation is kind of troubling.

I think what Goldwater is trying to ask is that if gender is indeed a social construct, why must biological sex play into the discussion at all? It's a question I often have myself, but I would probably err on the side of caution and vote against this bill.

Gender's not a social construct, though. That's why we have trans people. Y'all can read about that boy whose circumcision went wrong and so his parents raised him as a girl but he went back to being a man in his teens; I can't quite remember his name.