DRINKING THE TRANSGENDER KOOL-AID® - Rhiannon O’Donnabhain, the IRS, and TG Madness

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Springfield, VA, USA. You have to expect that gender spectrum sociologists, who insist there is one BIG T umbrella that encompasses both the people born with Harry Benjamin Syndrome (HBS — a.k.a Transsexuality) and the vast ocean of gender variants in society, to drink the Transgender Kool-aid®.

But you certainly don’t expect your lawyers to swallow that babbling fountain of soft science and what passes in the modern world for deep academic thought.

When Rhiannon O’Donnabhain, a 57 year old woman born transsexual, underwent sex reassignment surgery (SRS), she deducted the $25,000 the operation cost as a medical expenses on the tax return she filed with the United States Internal Revenue Service (SRS). The IRS disallowed the SRS, ruling the operation was cosmetic.

How could the IRS come to that conclusion? HBS or Gender Identity Disorder (GID) is recognized as a disorder by the American Psychological Association (APA). ¹

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