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[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Guidelines for bottom surgery in the US generally require at least a full year continuous living as your preferred gender and a letters from 2 mental health professionals as to your persistent dysphoria and need for surgery.

Surgeons are almost always extremely strict about those requirements as they are part of the Wpath standard and therefore failing to require them could expose them to malpractice claims. Shit even the Thai surgeons require it.

I can’t speak for the UK but that’s absolutely the standard in the US.

[–]worried19 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks, circling. I appreciate the info. I'm glad they haven't gone "informed consent" for vaginoplasties the way they have for mastectomies.