So I'm seeing a lot of transmed discord on tiktok. Haven't been on here as much to see it here but I figure we're probably having this argument again.
I'm currently going to college for medical billing and coding. I'm also getting my top surgery in 12 days. When I got my letter for my surgery being approved by insurance, I looked through the paperwork quickly and I noticed that the diagnosis was not gender dysphoria. That's strange, the diagnosis that was on the letter for my surgeon was gender dysphoria.
I was confused so I went into my ICD-10-CM manual and found that the code used had a few diagnoses listed under it.
Meaning that being diagnosed as ANY of these means the treatment related to that will receive that code unless there is a separate one that is more accurate. Let's take a look at what's listed here.
Gender identity disorder, alright.
Gender incongruence? You mean the thing that transmeds cry isn't what makes you trans?
WILL YOU FUCKERS TAKE THIS AS PROOF THAT SAYING YOU DON'T NEED GENDER DYSPHORIA TO BE TRANS WILL NOT STRIP US OF OUR HEALTHCARE?!
Probably not, because you don't care about facts. You care about feeling like you're better than other people. You just want to put down people who experience gender differently than you.