7 years ago is when you call it a failure

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[–]xoenix[S] 8 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

Dude living in misery with a gaping wound and people suggest more drugs and surgery.

[–]hfxB0oyADon't piss on my head & tell me it's raining. 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I wonder if the surgery actually did get "botched", or is the reality of 'sex reassignment surgery' actually just a lie tied to an unfixable open wound?

[–]alladd 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

probably a "feature, not a bug" type of thing - by not telling people the reality of SRS/neovaginas, everyone who gets one can think they were the unlucky one who got "botched".

[–]OuroborosTheory 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

iirc the discussions were pretty frank before the 2010s--"it'll be physical pain, but weighed against psychic pain": that was when they still called it "sex change"

now it's nothing but Affirmation and Support Communities: and Tumblr and the Queer Club say the only thing worse than a 'phobe is a gatekeeper, someone who second-guesses your Lived Experience (ironically also what they called living as the opposite sex)--now "opposite sex" is "binary," "sex change" is "medicalization," examining whether you actually have dysphoria "conversion therapy" (which is what they used to call "changing someone considered effeminate through hormones and surgeries")

there is no bottom

[–]alladd 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It's like if meth addiction had its own grassroots tolerance movement.

"The pain of your teeth falling out is nothing compared to the psychic pain of not receiving chemical affirmation"

[–]OuroborosTheory 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

that's exactly Purdue Pharmaceutical's MO--they set up a "grassroots" movement where everyone said the exact same thing--"we have a right to pain management and besides people will just go to illegal sources and you wouldn't sue Ford after a car accident AND STOP CALLING US JUNKIES AND HAND OVER ALL THE OXY"