First the differences between NHS and everything else, everywhere else are not valid, no one else has a system quite like NHS (thank god). And at that, nothing could be further from the NHS model (be it good or bad) than the US system. So it's absurd to compare them.
Ridiculous yammering is ridiculous.Oh, you must be new here.
But, trans people... we are assumed to have mental problems?So long as it's in the DSM, so long will you really have 'mental problems' according to the
Big Book of Mental Problems. Drop it, and so long insurance funding.
What would transitioning look like if GID were removed from the DSM?Incredibly expensive for individuals, beyond the range of many who now get it.
Other people have just as drastic surgery to look VERY different than they do. How is that ANY different?Normal people would cry bloody murderFirst, RLT and HRT are things that can be backed out of, surgery, not so much.
Second, because of this, and because HRT in many places is not subject to gate-keeping it because it's offered on an informed consent basis (at a public health facility) and since it's you making the diagnosis, and you taking the medicine it leaves very little room for blaming (suing) anyone else. SRS/FFS on the other hand do involve others, high-payed and highly trained specialists. Those people CAN be - and are - sued by others. To protect themselves, their investment in themselves, their practice upon which both their family and their patients depend they require a huge measure of cover your ass.
To that degree not only SRS but increasingly many more plastic surgery procedures (and plastic surgeons) are requiring psych evalus for their patients. (This was common up to the 1950s, it's just making a resurgence.) Google it and you'll find almost 3 million hits for the topic of psych evalus for plastic surgery.
In 2009 alone, nearly 10,000,000 individuals sought cosmetic procedures in the U.S. alone (Sclafani, 2010). With this growing interest and number of people seeking cosmetic procedures, it has also become important to evaluate the patient's motives and understand what they think plastic surgery can do for them. Unrealistic expectations or impure motives can lead to problems for both the individual undergoing the procedure, as well as the doctors involved in performing the surgery. It is for this very purpose that many individuals are now being referred for psychological evaluations before cosmetic procedures are agreed upon. And in cases when patients may not need formal evaluations, cosmetic surgeons are being trained to be more aware of what to look for in applicants for cosmetic surgery.http://voices.yahoo.com/why-psychological-evaluations-necessary-8276069.htmlYou think you are being singled out and picked on, when you're not. It part of a general trend.
