“Why should their state taxpayer dollars be used to pay for other’s elective surgeries?”
By Catholics for Catholics
If some residents of Georgia thought that just because a law protects kids from transgender surgeries they would be off the hook when it comes to paying for those procedures, they would be wrong.
Though Georgia law safeguards minors from transgender surgeries, state taxpayers may still have to pay for procedures in other states thanks to a legal loophole, one Republican lawmaker cautions, according to a story by The Daily Wire.
Blake Tillery, a Georgia State Senator, wants the state legislature to pass a bill that would terminate all state funding for transgender surgeries for both adults and minors. Tillery is the chair of the Senate appropriations committee; he told The Daily Wire that the majority of residents would be “appalled” to know how their tax dollars were being spent.
“This is not a hard decision. This is whether or not children should undergo gender-mutilating surgeries performed by adults,” Tillery said. “It’s whether or not your state taxpayer dollars should be used to pay for gender-altering surgeries that defy biology and for the vast majority of Georgians, the decision here is clear: this isn’t something they support and it’s not something that should be supported with their taxpayer dollars.”
On the one hand, Georgia bars transgender surgery on kids. Ah, but there is a catch.
The state is obligated to pay for the transgender surgeries of minors covered under the State’s Health Benefit Plan, according to Tillery. He added that the plan applies to public school teachers and other state employees, where around 660,000 people are currently covered under the plan.
No transgender surgeries on minors.
— Blake Tillery (@BlakeTillery) March 23, 2026
No taxpayer dollars for transgender surgeries.
No exceptions.
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In other words, a Georgia citizen covered under the State Health Benefit Plan could travel to another state like New York or California and have a transgender surgery done on their child, at the expense of the state of Georgia.
“If we don’t ban our state taxpayer dollars from being used to fund,” Tillery said, these surgeries that the “convoluted system of laws requires our state taxpayer funding to be used” for the procedures in other states.
Tillery observed that state dollars cannot go to other elective procedures like facelifts or tummy tucks.
“Georgians aren’t allowed to use their state health benefit plan or private insurance or other elective surgeries,” he said. “Why should their state taxpayer dollars be used to pay for others’ elective surgeries? Especially those that go well against the norm of the majority of Georgia’s beliefs.”
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