ROTFLMAO!!!!!! Oh MY GODDESS!!!!
This reminds me so much of the exercise way back in my PSU days where in Speech Comp., one person whispers something to another person who whispers to another and on and on.
At the end of the circle, the last person to get the news whispers it back to the original person that started the gossip. And guess what, not only is the message completely wrong, it has totally lost it's original intent.
Since this quote is atributed to me, I feel I best clarify my point:
QuoteThey are there for the benefit of the surgeons, to cover their ass, not for the benefit of the patients. They don't even do what they are intended to do, weed out inappropriate candidates . Anyone with enough time and money, especially money, gets through.
So, who are these mythical people that needed to be weeded out that I am supposedly excluding for their own good? Only they know who they are! I personally have never net a single person that was transitioning, had transitioned, or had surgery that regreted it even a little bit! And I have been around a looooong time.
So, my point about the SOC is that they are not necessary. They are a moot point, set up back at the beginning of this exodus to provide cover for the surgeons against the uncertainty of a pioneering treatment. Have we already forgotten that this cottage industry was only created roughly 50 years ago? Nowadays, does anyone know anyone that regrets any choices they have made? Seriously? Anyone?
So many people have gone thru the SOC at this point that it should be obvious to even nitwits like me that they are an unnecessary bottleneck. Every person has to follow the same guidelines, and take roughly the same amount of time even though everyone comes at this differently. It's speaks to the ridiculous for my part. Each person should be able to proceed at their own pace without having to meet some arbitrary time guideline or paperwork issue. This has been going on for decades. Don't you think that if mass groups of people were going to throw themselves off of a bridge out of regret, or despair, that it would have already occured?
Now, thses guidelines that were set up back in the day may have been deemed necessary back then, but I don't believe they are valid anymore. That is my big flippin' opinion. They may not be a financial hardship to someone that has a lot of money stashed away, or a retirement fund to tap, or a great paying job. But for the average person slaving away at the bottom, forcing someone to go thru a process, where: they have to pay all of the costs toward (the US is not GB or O' Canada) including so many sessions for this therapy and so many sessions for that therapy, simply to get a letter that has about as much value these days as a lincoln penny, is a coersive and undo burden on clients seeking treatment. Also my opinion. Dig?
Anyone can get one, because anyone serious about this process we are discussing is willing to undergo tremendous hardship to do so. But, if it proves nothing but the fact that they can make enough money to pay off some therapists for a letter that anyone can get, than WTF are we doing? Those people in the bottom category could be saving their money to get surgery or FFS or some other thing that is way more important toward their eventual transition than paying some therapists and doctors to have permission to do something that they then have to pay for out of their own pocket. This speaks to me of a collusion between the surgeons and the medical health people (wink, wink, nod, nod) to to ensure everyone is making money off of this deal.
NOW! If the medical professionals want to restrict the ability of people to get the treatment they need to those willing to get a letter, than those same medical professionals better make damn sure that they also see to it that they find a way to pay for that service as well. Because they have no business controlling access to something someone else is paying for out of their own pocket. That is definitely my opinion. What the healthcare systems in Canada and GB do is different story. But in the US, it's every man and woman for themselves.
Further, if we go back to my original comments, they were made in reaction to the story posted about the person in GB that transitioned and then regretted it.
THAT mythical person. But if this person with regret went thru the entire SOC process, and made it to surgery, WTF are the SOC for? Here is the perfect example of someone that transitioned and then had regret afterward. That is one out of how many? One out of a thousand, ten-thousand, or more? There is the one person where anyone has heard about regret in how many years and the SOC could not prevent them from self destruction? Than
WHAT GOOD ARE THEY!?
So, let's review kids. The SOC don't really benefit people that transition and then have regret.
They don't help those mutitude that go thru the process and get a letter that proves nothing in particular, other than they are willing to pay a bunch of money on an hourly basis to a bunch of medical healthcare professionals that then give them a letter as long as they are not psychotic, I guess? One therapist can't tell that in a visit or two?
So, who exactly IS the SOC benefitting? Well, the medical healthcare people are guaranteed a certain amount of money per patient until they deem it appropriate to give them the letters they need. The surgeons benefit because having the patient go thru the letter process almost guarantees them a good case in their favor if the highly unlikey mythical patient of regret shows up on their doorstep later on. I see a collusion. A form of piracy. That
IS my opinion. Show me another surgical procedure where the patient is
FORCED to undergo a mental health evaluation before a surgeon will operate. It's absurd. That is also my opinion.
My solution? Abolish the SOC. Force the medical community to treat you on an individual basis, the same way as all other surgeons have to treat their patients. Don't you people get that you are their boss?
YOU are paying
them for a sevice. They have to answer to you, not you to them. At this point, the record will show that the risk to a surgeon performing SRS on a patient in matters other than medical liability on a purely physical basis is negligible. Time has shown that the mythical legion of SRS patients that march post-op into a surgeons office and demanding a refund are simply not going to materialize. This whole process is stuck in a time warp, and it is for reasons more political than practical.
C'mon people. It's your money, and your time, and your life. Caveat Emptor. Watch out for your own interests, cause they don't give a damn about you. How do I know?
Try getting treatment in the US without $$$. Go ahead. Try. See how far you get. The SOC and the medical people can kiss my skinny white ass.
