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[–]slushpilot 16 insightful - 2 fun16 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

  1. Withhold services when people have a medical condition that might need surgery. They are perfect and valid in the body they were born with!
  2. Promote surgery when people have a mental discomfort but are physically normal. They are born in the wrong body!

Makes sense, right?

[–]JulienMayfair 14 insightful - 5 fun14 insightful - 4 fun15 insightful - 5 fun -  (1 child)

I'm also reminded of an FTM trans man I knew in graduate school during the transition. She admitted to me that transition didn't fix her problems, and she eventually committed suicide.

[–]whateverneverpine 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Tragic.

[–]MarkTwainiac 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

In the US, for a clinic & insurance company suddenly to start denying a person treatment they have been on for a while for a previously established medical condition by re-naming & recategorizing the medical condition is illegal.