[Amnorix]

If the kid has identified himself as a female since age 2, then I'm not sure what the parents and kids and doctors have done here is totally insane.

That said, I'm not a big fan of state funding of sex change therapy and/or surgery. Ultimately, the state isn't responsible for fixing every problem in people's lives, and just becaues they can't afford to fix it themselves doesn't mean it suddenly and automatically becomes the government's problem.

I support limited universal health care, because I view our current system as insane, dysfunctional, and teetering towards a breakdown. I havent' analyzed the heatlh care industry closely, and don't know where to draw the lines, but the kind of universal health care I would support would not likely include this kind of situation. Even if being in the wrong body causes lots of stress, etc., which may well be true, I don't view it as the government's problem to fix (no pun intended).