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[–]kr66t 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It kills me when people ridicule those who point this out. There is nothing funny about it; it is experimental. For 17 months, I couldn't get a urologist to help me. Every time, it was the inevitable, "Sorry, Mr. Newgent, I don't feel comfortable taking you on as a patient, the phalloplasty, and for that matter, all transgender health, is experimental. Could you go back to the original surgeon?"

This is so heartbreaking.

[–]StupidHappyPancakes 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I hear this all the time. Patients become desperate to get surgery as soon as possible, for the lowest price, and with the least amount of gatekeeping, so many trans people who get SRS are left with not only horrible, lifelong side effects but also suddenly can't get their surgeon to take their calls. And even if things get so bad that the patient just decides to go to the ER, what's the chance that anyone on staff is equipped to handle the medical emergency properly?