Trans ‘Healthcare Providers’ Caught Lying About Diagnoses, Rubber-Stamping Approvals for Sex-Change Procedures
Not experiencing gender dysphoria? No problem. These companies will say you have it so insurance will cover your surgery.
The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh uncovered trans healthcare providers rubber-stamping approvals and lying about diagnoses so a patient can get sex-change procedures.
Lying about the diagnoses is a way for insurance to cover the procedure.
The investigation centers around Plume, which is “the largest healthcare provider to the trans and nonbinary community.”
Daily Wire producer Gregg Re went undercover to request a letter of support.
Yes, for $150, you can get a letter of support to get life-changing operations.
Re got a letter after spending 22 minutes on a video call with a nurse at Plume. The letter was for testicle removal.
This thread is wild. Plume approved Re despite not passing any questionnaires.
It’s a farce.
9/ In his intake form with Plume, Gregg provided a fake legal name. He said he had dysphoria in the past. But he stated he had never experienced it for six months or more. Under the current version of the DSM-5, that means he doesn’t have gender dysphoria. pic.twitter.com/MWoveVpQ2T
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) June 7, 2023
11/ Nevertheless, Plume’s nurse practitioner said she wanted to write the most "solid" letter possible to justify surgery. Gregg tells her that he once wrote an essay in school about being a woman, which everyone thought was ridiculous. pic.twitter.com/iY7Ec3Q1wd
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) June 7, 2023
13/ Three days later, Plume sent this letter to "Chelsea Bussey” – who does not exist — saying he was experiencing "significant, ongoing gender dysphoria.” The letter strongly recommended “Chelsea” for testicle removal. pic.twitter.com/WzIMsjygS6
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) June 7, 2023
Matt pointed out that the letter’s author capitalized “Orchiectomy” and did not use “an” in front of it.
So did the author copy and paste? Yup.
15/ Later, Plume’s nurse practitioner confirmed that "in order for the surgery to be paid for," the dysphoria diagnosis would need to remain. At the same time, the nurse appeared confused as to why “Chelsea Bussey” had requested testicle removal in the first place. pic.twitter.com/AocC3z0FQ2
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) June 7, 2023
The beginning of the thread introduces us to Ari Groner, a licensed clinical social worker.
Groner is an educator on “trans healthcare.”
In a video, Groner admitted she would give any letter a patient wants. She doesn’t want to be a “gatekeeper.”
Insurance companies won’t approve surgeries unless someone diagnoses them with gender dysphoria.
2/ First, some background. Ari Groner is a licensed clinical social worker who educates doctors on “trans healthcare.” At a recent training session for the Juniper Center, Groner explained that she writes whatever letters her patients want, because she’s not a “gatekeeper.” pic.twitter.com/8CVUWiYetY
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) June 7, 2023
4/ Groner explains that insurance companies won't pay for these surgeries unless the patient is diagnosed with gender dysphoria. So, she says healthcare workers should provide the diagnosis. “We're using that diagnosis,” she says, “to ensure clients get that necessary treatment." pic.twitter.com/TqFDMaVYQt
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) June 7, 2023
FOLX is another trans telehealth service. The company flat out said it would diagnose you with gender dysphoria, so the insurance will cover the surgery.
5/ Whatever insurance companies might think of that, it’s the industry standard. The popular trans telehealth service @folxhealth, for example, instructs patients that even if they don’t “fit” the definition of gender dysphoria, the diagnosis is “needed” so that insurers pay out. pic.twitter.com/8hVoLXzAkH
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) June 7, 2023
7/ We reached out to Folx about this. A staff member confirmed that a "diagnosis" of gender dysphoria — with the word "diagnosis" in scare quotes — is a “requirement” for insurance purposes, even if it “doesn’t apply.” pic.twitter.com/t5wbZVgrSJ
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) June 7, 2023
Money.
Money.
Money.
Plume and Folx have only been around for a few years. But the transgender phase, for the lack of a better word, only started to gather steam, I’d say, last year.
17/ The answer is that there’s big money behind this. Plume and Folx raised more than $45 million last year. @craft_ventures just led Plume's $14 million fundraising round. Is @DavidSacks aware this is going on? Are @transformcptl, @generalcatalyst, @slow, or @townhallvntrs?
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) June 7, 2023
19/ Some states have restricted this kind of 'medicine.' Florida, for example, recently passed a law banning most trans telehealth services. Trans activists (and the Associated Press @AP) have complained that this law is 'onerous.' pic.twitter.com/PY10yi5xj8
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) June 7, 2023
20/ They’re furious because they know the “gender transition” industry is corrupt and fraudulent from the ground up. Protecting kids is just one piece of the puzzle. The fight begins there, but it doesn’t end there. The whole industry needs to be shut down.
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) June 7, 2023
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I have been saying for at least 2 or 3 years now that seemingly no one is ever told they are not dysmorphic. If there is only ever one answer then something is clearly wrong with the “system”. This is akin to every person who visits a cancer clinic being told they have cancer without any sort of tests to determine if cancer actually exists or not. It’s all a scam all the way down, and likely won’t be shut down until the lawsuits bankrupt all the charlatans.
Not experiencing gender dysphoria? No problem. These companies will say you have it so insurance will cover your surgery.
I wonder if the medical insurance companies that paid out benefits/money for these trans surgeries will be suing organizations like Plume and others to recover the money they paid out for these fake diagnosis of
gender identity disordergender dysphoria.Nah mate’! The insurance industry won’t touch that one with a barge pole! Being branded transphobic isn’t good for business even if it means them paying out hundreds of millions of dollars because of fraudulent diagnoses!!
Tell that one to the stockholders expecting the insurance companies to do their fiduciary duty and make them money and not pay out millions in fake/bogus claims for trans surgeries.
They can always blacklist clinics like Plume that they know give out bogus/fake diagnosis of gender identity disorder simply to get insurance to pay for expensive surgeries and follow-up treatments. Reward the honest clinics & punish the dishonest ones.
Wake me up when shareholders start holding boards accountable for their negligence Luci.
This is absurd! Why are doctors and nurses involved? Diagnoses should be made by qualified biologists.
The transing of America makes as much sense as the world will end because of man-made carbon dioxide.
Ohhhhhhhh, I like what you did there! 😂😂
Pronouns are lost/the/war
They did the same with abortion. They did the same with medical mandates. They did the same with Obamcares, Medicare, and Medicaid. The same class of ethically minded people… persons did the same with transgender or cismarriage… civil unions for all consenting adults.
Econ 101, people respond to financial incentives. They need the diagnosis to get paid so they create a system to gin up the diagnosis. Let’s stop lionizing healthcare workers and face the fact that many are motivated by a paycheck not altruism or a calling.
That includes people in groups, such as hospitals. GD surgery is a money maker, paid for by insurance (if the proper steps are taken) or far more rarely in cash. It’s not under the Medicare/Medicaid caps, so if they charge $10k for a procedure than insurance pays $8k for, and only costs the hospital $5k, cha-ching. (a far cry from Medicare procedures which are reimbursed at or below the hospital’s costs)
Healthcare workers are not exempted from this:
Jeremiah 17:9 “The heart is deceitful above all things,
And desperately wicked;
Who can know it?
So when do the fraud arrests start? Should I stay up tonight waiting for them?
Sounds like insurance fraud to me.
RICO
Anything for a buck.. so to speak.
The narrative moved from “this is real healthcare” to “body parts should be removed on request” in a matter of hours.
wow.
Want to get your kids castrated? Just bring them to Washington State. We have some new laws that allow kids to get “gender-affirming care” with or without parental notice or approval.
Will they do other people’s kids?
They probably specialize in other people’s kids.
As teachers, we are told that we affirm a dysphoric student’s “gender identity”, or be complicit in his suicide. As it is, we both affirm and are complicit. Woe is us.
Someone please explain this movement to me. I do not understand it. The percentage of ‘gender dysphoric’ people is much less than 1%.
Why are educators and health care institutions engaging in what may be called ‘war’ against parents and ‘normal’ people? Is there a great deal of money involved?
Someone please educate me. I genuinely do not understand it.
Erronius