I had my gender confirmation surgery in January of 2016. I went to Canada because my insurance didn’t cover it, and the exchange rate saved me a ton of money. Anyway, I don’t actually have much of a problem with the hoops I was required to jump through, as far as the therapy and counseling requirements go. I had other issues to work through first, as they were muddying the waters a bit. I have known trans people who took shortcuts, and went overseas to surgeons willing to bypass the hoops, and they ended up regretting the surgery. One, unfortunately, came to the conclusion that the surgery was a mistake not just for them, but for everyone, and that gender identity issues were just bullshit. In other words, after the surgery realized they were a cross dresser, and not transgender, but somehow extended that to believing that there was no such thing as transgender. My point in all this is that, I, unlike many trans people, think the hoops are a good idea. And as far as people getting surgery to transform themselves into an elf (or tiger or lizard or or or), well who am I to judge. But they should have to jump through some hoops too. If they don’t, they may discover after the surgery that they just spent a whole lot of money and went through some painful, permanent changes, that didn’t fix their problems.
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