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Jumping Through Hoops

Started by Butterfly, December 28, 2010, 04:58:24 PM

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December 28, 2010, 04:58:24 PM
Jumping Through Hoops
A.E. Brain
By Zoe Brain
27 December, 2010


http://aebrain.blogspot.com/2010/12/jumping-through-hoops.html


Transition - the process of changing one's social role from one sex to the other - is something that the medical profession only helps with conditionally. Contrary to popular belief, it's not something just anyone is allowed to do.

Note the word "allowed".

Someone can get plastic surgery to enlarge or reduce breast size just by paying for it. Someone can get a hysterectomy on demand, or even have testes removed. But to get legal access to hormones, and later, surgery, that's a different matter. The medical profession insists on having a "gatekeeper" role (for the patient's own good of course), treating them as being incompetent to make their own decisions.
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