I have been trying to qualify for some financial assistance programs for various medications I am taking. Apparently at the school health center there are so many needing these programs that they have a staff member exclusively devoted to taking care of this. Yesterday this staff member, who knows about my eunuch status, suggested that I could qualify for disability based on it.

First of all, there is the issue of whether I would want to even if I could, which I will discuss below. But I really believe that she is mistaken anyway. I don't see how simply not having balls could be considered a disability. It may be a permanent condition, but I thought that in order to get disability the condition had to cause you to be unable to work.

There is T available for treating any health consequences of being a eunuch for one thing, and if I choose not to use it, then it is my own fault, so I really don't see how I can qualify. Second, even without T I fail to see how that would leave someone unable to work. Postmenopausal women are many, and many of them work. A male eunuch is basically in the same situation.

AFAIK the only career that is out to someone missing both balls is the military. I'm not sure about cop/firefighter. Maybe those too. But nothing else as far as I can tell. Many eunuchs work, and I really don't see how I would qualify as disabled based solely on being a eunuch.

But there is also the issue of whether I would even want disability if I could qualify. Both my parents are on it, and both make under $1000 a month. Not much money. The only thing they really get out of it is health insurance, and since it's medicaid even that is nothing special. So I really don't see any benefits to getting disability.

Since becoming a eunuch I have not applied for a job where a complete physical is required. If I would be denied the job because of having no testicles, and this happened several times, I might think of it as a disability. I do not think of myself as disabled but due to the lack of T I would avoid physically demanding jobs.

Any time you receive assistance from an agency they record the reason why you qualified. This information would end up in the great college or government computer system. To receive the benefits are you willing to divulge this information about yourself?

I think that making it known that you are a eunuch will cause more trouble than it is worth. Unless you suffer from some other sort of disability, I doubt that you would qualify for financial aid as your balls are not exactly an essential part of your body. It would take a very good lawyer to argue otherwise. On the other hand, being denied employment because of the lack of testicles, might be actionable in a court of law. Again, I caution that this would be a very public matter and would also make for some potentially lurid headlines.

Plix.....I guess it was a ggod thing I had a vasectomy while in the military. If I had had my balls removed instead, I guess I would not be retired from the military now. I DO kind of wonder whether any of our guys have lost theirs while in action and if they would be discharged because of it. My T is paid for my the military health system, well all except for the co-pay.

Bob

I don't think that being a eunuch or not having testicles can be considered a disability. It doesn't keep you from being able to do a job. Today, women do all the same jobs in the workplace that men do and women obviously don't have testicles.

Being castrated and having your testicles removed is not the same as missing an arm or a leg. Since you use your hands in almost every job there is, I can see how missing an arm or a hand would make it harder to do some jobs and impossible to do others. But since you don't use your testicles as part of your work on the job, I don't see how being a eunuch and not having testicles can be considered a disability.

You mentioned being on some medication prescribed by your doctor. If your doctor prescribes some medication that you need for some medical condition and you can't afford to buy it, I think then you should be able to get some kind of financial assistance to buy your medication. But even that is not really a disability the same way missing an arm or a leg would be.

I think its really simple. Is a women who has her ovaries removed "disabled"? And as this is still very common surgery (unfortunatly) I think the answer has to be no. Humm... unless we factor in the mental aspects that may make a Male who has had a "Hysterectomy" crazy.

I've had personal experiences with several men who has to go through with castration late in life due to prostate problems and they are to say the least very unhappy campers.

Is that the gist of why they are offering coverage to you?

it sounds that if you were not hired, or fired from your job because your boss

found out you had no nuts i would find a good lawer and sue the phuck out of that company for sexual discrimation

I think eunuchism can be a precipitant of disability. For example, many folks who undergo castration (involuntary, as well as voluntarily) will experience mental distress to one extent or another. Certainly not all, but many. For most it takes the form of depression. Its severity can be tremendous (I speak from experience). Sometimes reactions can be so severe as to constitute psychosis. Sometimes psychosis precipitates the castration.

While castration may not, in and of itself be a disability (as a primary complaint, I don't believe it is), secondary or incidental to a mental health crisis, it can sometimes be a disability, even a very severe disability.

Further, for comment by others, would chronic orchalgia constitute a disability?

For a young men loosing testicles can not only mean a disability but also end of their lifestyle and ultimately in some cases life.

For most men testicles are naturally the source of a drive to succeed and exist. Just like all of our organs testicles do have their role.

Let's face it ,we would not be exchanging info here today, if not for testicles.

tugon (imported) wrote: Sat Feb 02, 2008 1:50 pm Since becoming a eunuch I have not applied for a job where a complete physical is required. If I would be denied the job because of having no testicles, and this happened several times, I might think of it as a disability. I do not think of myself as disabled but due to the lack of T I would avoid physically demanding jobs.

Any time you receive assistance from an agency they record the reason why you qualified. This information would end up in the great college or government computer system. To receive the benefits are you willing to divulge this information about yourself?

I guess I totally fail to understand the USA system. I've never had to take a physical connected to employment. I have had to answer questions about health.

While our social health care system doesn't cover pharmaceuticals, I do have a co-pay plan through my employer - I pay 20%. It covers my Androgel and a couple of other things that have been prescribed by my personal physician. The reason is just listed as 'hypogonadism.' It's not on a public record somewhere that I'm ballless.