I don't know if you'd be banned, but stump is very good at arguing, and the worse your argument is, the more stupid he'll make you look. With the reply you want to make, the obvious follow-up is: there are a lot of things that aren't life-threatening for which medical treatment is provided , so if you want to dq it on those grounds, you have to start looking at things like broken bones, dental cavities, chronic pain, torn or strained ligaments, damaged joints, torn muscles, and a whole variety of other non-life threatening issues that are treated without much in the way of questions or complaint.
Not taking a side here, but if you're going to go up against someone like stump in a debate, you'd better have responses ready for at least all of the obvious replies to your statements.
Oh, I know. I'm just worried my opinion of the situation would offend the transgender PC police/outrage squad because I think it's a minor non-life-threatening condition. Maybe if the dude (er-"dudette?") didn't kill his (er-"her?") wife, he (er-"she?") would have the money to do the operation. But they got jailed and killed their significant other. Tough shit, you don't have the money for this operation, really.
Also I could see the counter-argument of "well what about blah blah blah..." and yeah, I'd agree those aren't serious either. Fillings? Yeah, those should be covered because well taking care of your teeth is important. But cosmetic surgery stuff besides that that is only changing appearances? Not too high on the important-need-to-get scale.
Anyway, I'm not gonna argue about it here. I just wish the mods would come out and say "you won't get banned for having an opinion that may not be the majority opinion" because there's times on GAF where someone can say something unpopular but it's their opinion and then within the hour get banned because it isn't the majority opinion. Of course, maybe it's just the way they said it or what not but there's times where I'm never sure if posting my opinion on something there is going to be kosher to the mods or not. That thread just smelled "honeypot ban trap" to me.