What It's Like To Choose Transgender Sex Reassignment Surgery http://capeandislands.org/post/what-its-choose-transgender-sex-reassignment-surgery WCAI
Meredith Rizzo • 13 hours ago
Originally published on June 2, 2015 7:02 am
It wasn't until Deborah Svoboda dated someone who is trans that she understood how little she understood about being transgender. "I realized how very misunderstood they were, including by me," she says. And that comes from someone who identifies as queer and has lived and worked in diverse communities.
So Svoboda decided to use her skills as a multimedia journalist to learn about one aspect of transition: sex reassignment surgery. Surgery is something that people tend to fixate on. The "Did she or didn't she?" aspect of it even came up in Vanity Fair's coverage of Caitlyn Jenner's transition. ---------------------------------------------------------------
While we celebrate Caitlyn's coming out with hopeful expectation of shedding more positive light on the plight of transgenders, let us remember that for the majority, without millions of dollars for the needed surgeries and treatments, life is not all peaches and cream. The video is supposed to talk about two regular people showing courage to face their pain, confusion, rejection, and criticism to and say "This is who I am."
Unfortunately I can't link to the video to see. Hopefully it is all the article purports it to be.
