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Perhaps.
I'm confused when reading the definition
"Gender identity" is a faith-based concept. If people want to believe in disembodied, synthetic sex identities, there's not a whole lot we can do to prevent it. Consenting adults should probably be allowed have their own associations or clubs where they all agree to use whatever pronouns they made up, and share whatever bathroom they want. But it's unscientific nonsense that has no place in laws or public schools, any more than astrology does.
I would think the gender identity claims are different for everyone who makes them.
I think anyone 18 or above can do whatever they want to themselves, as long as they don't harm others.
The biological argument is much more significant, however, as there are many people who are born with bodies that are - entirely or in part - both male and female. In that case, they have three options: assign themselves the biological sex with the greater percentage in their bodies; choose instead the oposite of this as an identity; or choose instead to be 'non-binary', to identify as two or more sexes.
Well we don't agree that all sorts of medical procedures should be legal, privately funded or otherwise (eg. lobotomies.) Though the way healthcare works today, we'll all have to pay for this somehow. Personally I'd rather see us place greater limits on unnecessary plastic surgery, and in particular remove any public funding for it, along with removing any requirements for insurers to cover it.
The public isn't paying for sex change operations in the US, AFAIK. To my knowledge, insurance won't pay for it. In countries with national health insurance, I know of no gender reassignment support. More on that here.
Labotomies: the last recorded lobotomy in the United States was performed by Dr. Walter Freeman in 1967 and ended in the death of the person on whom it was performed. In Europe, the Soviet Union banned lobotomies in 1950 , a year after inventor Dr. Egas Moniz won the Nobel Prize for medicine..
In the US and other wealthy countries, those born with intersex characteristics normally get that corrected while in infancy. In poorer countries there is no correction of intersex characteristics. There are also medical problems for kids with gender dysphoria, which can be treated in children.
