Wait period for surgeries

[rachel89]

I think a wait period is excusable, if it is the case that hormones should make changes to the body before surgery for best results, but the idea that trans people should wait because they are somehow inherently mentally unstable or stupid when it comes to making decisions about surgeries is offensive.

[RaptorChops]

Did anyone ever read about the guy who lost a $100k bet and had to get breast implants. It seems like he was able to get them just fine like any other woman. No evaluations, nothing.

[ainsley]

Did anyone ever read about the guy who lost a $100k bet and had to get breast implants. It seems like he was able to get them just fine like any other woman. No evaluations, nothing.

I got my BA with no evaluations, letters, recommendations, or anything.  I went to a plastic surgeon and was treated like any other woman. 

[AnonyMs]

I don't think there is any requirement to get approval for a boob job. If you want you just find a surgeon that will do the exact procedure with the implants you want. The same for FFS. I never needed approval just a boatload of money. The only surgery I ever needed approval for was my SRS and the nature of it is different. It's irreversible and if you don't like your life afterwards, you are pretty much stuck. I don't think it was a big deal now looking back but when I was staring down the long road to travel like you are today it seemed like it could have been eternity. Don't worry when surgery day rolled around for me then none of the standards of care and blah blah blah mattered to me anymore. I was there, it was going to happen and that was that.

I don't really agree with this. Coming out is irreversible and so in some ways is HRT. SRS in many ways seems a relativly small step. It wouldn't make me any more sterile than I already am from years of HRT, nor do I have any desire for sex as a man since starting HRT. I don't walk around naked so no one's going to notice. I don't see whole lot of risk at this point, and yet its far more difficult to get SRS than the steps leading up to it.

Coming out and HRT seem like the big ones for me, and I've come out to very few people.

This thread reminds me of another one maybe a year ago about getting SRS while presenting male.