Topic: Real Life Experience as a Prerequisite for Surgery

[Allie Jayne]

Karen, for something as important as surgery, it is important to establish need. Check out the World Health Organisation ruling in 2018, and more recently, the American Psychology Association changes in DSM-6 which acknowledge trans as a medical condition. WPATH is being re written to reflect this also.

For those who for many reasons, simply can’t socially transition, and are significantly affected by dysphoria, GRS can be life saving. Access to surgery needs to be assessed on a case by case basis with informed consent featuring heavily.

Last year a trans woman I knew was denied estrogen therapy for health reasons (she had breast cancer in her male life), and was also denied GRS. She gave up and died. There are a plethora of reasons people are unable to go the traditional route to GRS and often their lives are on the line.

Hugs,

Allie

[AnonyMs]

If we care are protecting people from their mistakes we’d need psych evals for all cosmetic surgery. These surgeries all carry risk for no medical benifit and people often regret it. Breast augmentation, facelifts, rhinoplasty, liposuction, penis augmentation, tattoos, piercings, butt implants and BBL, LASIK eye surgery, and plenty of botched facial fillers. And women often regret BA, so let’s have a years RLE for that, just in case. You’d have to be insane to start smoking so we’ll definitely need a psych eval for that. Not trans? Oh well, you’re an adult, no need for any of that.