The Answer is still no even if all variables have mean zero. Take $f(x)=x|x|$. Let $X$ take values $-5,-1,1,5$, equally likely, and let $Y$ take values $-4,4$, equally likely. Then $Y$ has greater variance than $X$ but this is reversed when you apply $f$ to both variables.
Yuval Peres
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