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Transgender benefits coming to Spotify!!

Posted on 10/16/19 at 8:40 pm
Posted by xGeauxLSUx
United States of Atrophy
Member since Oct 2008
21025 posts
Posted on 10/16/19 at 8:40 pm


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At Spotify, we believe being able to freely identify and express your gender in a safe, welcoming environment means you get to be the best version of yourself. That’s why we’re proud to have worked closely with our LGBTQIA+ Employee Resource Group, Spectrum, to launch a new benefit. From 1 January 2019, Spotify began offering coverage of masculinization and feminization treatment as recommended by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) in association with a diagnosis of gender dysphoria.




1:48 commercial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=90&v=XRyr7XXJxPc






Posted by SSpaniel
Germantown
Member since Feb 2013
29658 posts
Posted on 10/16/19 at 8:45 pm to
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LGBTQIA+


What's the I, A and + stand for?

quote:

Spotify began offering coverage of masculinization and feminization treatment as recommended by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) in association with a diagnosis of gender dysphoria.


Wouldn't it be cheaper and actually better for the "patient" if they were to simply offer enhanced psychiatric benefits?
Posted by tiggerthetooth
Big Momma's House
Member since Oct 2010
61360 posts
Posted on 10/16/19 at 8:46 pm to
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That’s why we’re proud to have worked closely with our LGBTQIA+ Employee Resource Group, Spectrum, to launch a new benefi



Someone actually gets paid to do this.
Posted by McLemore
Member since Dec 2003
31538 posts
Posted on 10/16/19 at 8:53 pm to
I'm not a big boycotter, but I've been looking for an excuse to dump Spotify premium. Bye.
Posted by ninthward
Boston, MA
Member since May 2007
20451 posts
Posted on 10/16/19 at 9:08 pm to
Posted by Upperdecker
St. George, LA
Member since Nov 2014
30615 posts
Posted on 10/16/19 at 9:09 pm to
Deleting Spotify
Posted by ninthward
Boston, MA
Member since May 2007
20451 posts
Posted on 10/16/19 at 9:11 pm to
what a bunch of freaks
Posted by rbWarEagle
Member since Nov 2009
49999 posts
Posted on 10/16/19 at 9:15 pm to
Posted by ruzil
Baton Rouge
Member since Feb 2012
16951 posts
Posted on 10/16/19 at 9:27 pm to
I guess it's time to port over my Spotify playlists to Apple play. This is particularly sad.
Posted by TenWheelsForJesus
Member since Jan 2018
6615 posts
Posted on 10/16/19 at 9:35 pm to
If they want to do this, then whatever. But...

Are they going to increase the premiums paid by normal employees to cover the new cost of this?

Why would a company create a commercial for their health benefits package and put it on youtube? Are they really trying to attract more mentally ill employees, or are they just trying to virtue signal and push an agenda? We all know the answer.
Posted by cardswinagain
Member since Jun 2013
11905 posts
Posted on 10/16/19 at 10:05 pm to
So brave
Posted by blueboy
Member since Apr 2006
56463 posts
Posted on 10/16/19 at 10:06 pm to
Spotify once again bowing to wokeness in an effort to smooth their rocky relationship with the industry.
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World Professional Association for Transgender Health
That is fricking pathetic.
Posted by timdonaghyswhistle
Member since Jul 2018
16326 posts
Posted on 10/16/19 at 10:08 pm to
I'm conferring never knowing what Spotify is benefits on myself as of now.
Posted by McLemore
Member since Dec 2003
31538 posts
Posted on 10/16/19 at 10:19 pm to
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masculinization and feminization treatment


If this works, then shouldn't the standard of care be to masculinize chromosomal men and feminize chromosomal women? Especially minors, who by law lack capacity to make this choice.

If I had dysphoria (read: a mental illness and dimished capacity to make medical decisions) and wanted to be a genetic dolphin, and there was a choice between a dolphinization treatment, which included surgically implanted fins and a blowhole, on one hand, and humanization (you know, compatible with the human genes that comprise my actual human body) therapy on the other, which would a doctor be required to administer ethically?

And assuming a doctor could ethically heed the directives of a mentally ill patient and transform him into a dolphin, does society have a duty to not only accept this creature but also change its mores, facilities, etc to accommodate the mandolphinthing?

Or is my example just too absurd because it's just one mentally ill person v. a handful of people? And how do we decide who has actual physiological dolphin or gender dysphoria versus merely wanting to join the latest fringe group, out of a need to belong or garner attention (symptoms of yet a other mental illness perhaps), or cheat in sports?

This is why I say, I'll be sympathetic and nice and gracious to all people, regardless of mental illness, but what the hell else do you people want?

/rant
This post was edited on 10/17/19 at 2:22 am
Posted by FLTech
the A
Member since Sep 2017
12712 posts
Posted on 10/16/19 at 10:21 pm to
Just cancelled my MF account with them
Posted by tketaco
Sunnyside, Houston
Member since Jan 2010
19587 posts
Posted on 10/16/19 at 10:23 pm to
I'd recommend a rope.
Posted by dawgfan24348
Member since Oct 2011
49338 posts
Posted on 10/16/19 at 10:45 pm to
Oh neat something stupid for the right to bitch about
Posted by Nguyener
Kame House
Member since Mar 2013
20603 posts
Posted on 10/16/19 at 10:51 pm to
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From 1 January 2019, Spotify began offering coverage of masculinization and feminization treatment as recommended by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) in association with a diagnosis of gender dysphoria.



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Isn't Spotify a music streaming app? What does this have to do with music streaming? I'm confused.
Posted by The Quiet One
Former United States
Member since Oct 2013
11603 posts
Posted on 10/16/19 at 10:53 pm to
quote:

LGBTQIA+


Jesus el savior Christ
Posted by Christopher Columbo
Member since Jun 2015
2116 posts
Posted on 10/16/19 at 11:04 pm to
I can't believe no one has mentioned the photoshoppery in the image.
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