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throwaway1115on US fertility rate dropped to lowest in a century as births dipped in 2023

I'm not looking for your sympathy. I'm looking for my tax dollars to be spent more wisely.

The fact you think there can be enough for "everything" shows how far from reality you are. I hope that mentality dies and you start to understand there always priorities.

throwaway1115on US fertility rate dropped to lowest in a century as births dipped in 2023

I'm saying if problems such as the one mentioned in this article was the priority of the governments, they would allocate funds differently.

As to which one is more costly, I don't think if either of them is "really cheap therefore negligible"

throwaway1115on US fertility rate dropped to lowest in a century as births dipped in 2023

In the ideal world there would be resources enough for everything.

But that's never gonna happen. Funding for Healthcare is limited. There can't be a truly universal healthcare.

Now on one hand you have infertility, leading to more than 10% of families struggling. This makes two members of a family struggle mentally. Also the lack of child will have societal impact (economical cultural etc).

On the other hand you have elective gender reassignment. It certainly impacts the quality of life of the person receiving it, but that's it.

Note that we are not talking about a homosexual couple trying to have a child. No. Right now the ocncern is gender reassignment for under aged children! Whether school should inform parents or not! In what universe this can have higher priority?

throwaway1115on US fertility rate dropped to lowest in a century as births dipped in 2023

An anecdote:

Me and my wife live in Canada, with universal healthcare, and pay around 250k in taxes annually.

We also have fertility problem. Our treatment costed over 100k so far and (yes, $100,000), all out of pocket. Worse that that, for some treatment (egg donation) we had to go abroad because laws in Canada prevent it! Somewhere I read 10% of families struggle with similar problem, and I'm sure many are not as lucky as me to have the means to spend this much.

After spending so much, we finally could have our first child. But it's really hard to continue for the second one. The main problem is cost and traveling abroad.

At the same time, I see govt spend so much effort for LGBTQ gender change and similar treatments.

With such upside down policies, news like this is no surprise at all.

Im liberal in most policies, but this in and of itself is enough to vote against liberals/dems.