For Israeli government, funding transsexual voice surgery is more important than other medical issues

The Israeli government's medical committee wants to fund voice surgery for transsexuality:

The Medications Basket Committee decided Wednesday that the state will fund voice surgery for transgender people, at the expense of funding other drugs.

[...] Religious Zionism party chairman MK Bezalel Smotrich responded: "Thank you very much to Naftali Bennett, Ayelet Shaked, Matan Kahana, Nir Orbach and Idit Silman, who formed a government of change and healing that 'puts everything aside', also the cancer patients, and promotes only 'undisputed issues like funding voice treatments for transgender people from the drug basket ... when you get lost along the way there is no limit to the madness anymore."

And Smotrich's correct. This is, shall we say, very unhealthy practice and obsession.