Trans-Sexual Surgery

Washington D.C. Mayor Gray has decreed that insurance companies operating in Washington DC must cover sex reassignment surgery.  Aren't health expenses high enough without requiring coverage of something non-essential like this?

Also related to this issue from National Review, August 2013:

 "We have created a rhetoric of “gender identity” that is disconnected from biological sexual fact, and we have done so largely in the service of enabling the sexual mutilation of physically healthy men and women (significantly more men) by medical authorities who should be barred by professional convention if not by conscience from the removal of healthy organs (and limbs, more on that later), an act that by any reasonable standard ought to be considered mutilation rather than therapy."

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/356501/bradley-manning-not-woman-kevin-d-williamson