Re:Body integrity identity disorder patient satisfaction aft...
by bastawhiz on Sunday July 24, 2022 @11:29AM
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> it should not be sold as "the treatment" but as "we don't have anything better for now, we are working on it, if you can't wait, you can do it"
It's not sold as the treatment.
And to your comparison to trans folks, top and bottom surgery is not easy to access (and getting harder by the day!). Talk to any trans person and ask them all the things they needed to do and go through to prove to their doctors that they're trans enough. Besides there not being another option, gender affirming surgery works! The patients are largely satisfied with their outcomes! Why do we need to complicate this with suggesting how they should feel or think?
But moreover, who the fuck cares? I had gynocomastea surgery (after years of bodybuilding) and all I had to do was sign a form. Women can elect to get breast augmentation with no evaluation. Why should a trans person have to prove that they deserve a cosmetic surgery that anyone else can get—so long as the outcome is gender conforming? I can get anything I want tattooed on my face today, but someone else can't get their chest flattened for months because...some lab coats don't think they deserve it enough?
It's not sold as the treatment.
And to your comparison to trans folks, top and bottom surgery is not easy to access (and getting harder by the day!). Talk to any trans person and ask them all the things they needed to do and go through to prove to their doctors that they're trans enough. Besides there not being another option, gender affirming surgery works! The patients are largely satisfied with their outcomes! Why do we need to complicate this with suggesting how they should feel or think?
But moreover, who the fuck cares? I had gynocomastea surgery (after years of bodybuilding) and all I had to do was sign a form. Women can elect to get breast augmentation with no evaluation. Why should a trans person have to prove that they deserve a cosmetic surgery that anyone else can get—so long as the outcome is gender conforming? I can get anything I want tattooed on my face today, but someone else can't get their chest flattened for months because...some lab coats don't think they deserve it enough?