Quote from: sveebee85 on June 15, 2014, 04:19:15 PM
oooh (
thought only in germany it´s quite difficult to go forward with transition cause of our law & restrictions.
here you´ve to go to psychological therapy for almost 1 year and you´ve to live fulltime also 1 year before you´re allowed to start HRT.
good point, HRT, facial hair removal, voice therapy and finally GRS will be payed by our insurance. but there´s still a lot bureaucracy to do.
it makes it really complicated and you need such a lot documents (3 medical extimates etc.) ...
I made a comment in another thread about how shocked I am how some obstensibly progressive European countries treat trans people in relation to the United States. Although not great here by any means, it seems far more continentals than I suspected are stuck 20+ years in the past on treatment.
I mean, RLE before HRT? IMO for quite a few people that's torture. There's folks that flat out couldn't pass without it, so why put them at that risk, knowing the violence against trans people? Then there's the confirmatory aspect of HRT. Imagine spending a year putting up with non passing RLE only to get HRT. And be like "wait. This isn't for me." Granted that's what therapy is for, but there's something Bout getting those pills and everything finally working correctly in your head that takes that shred of self doubt away.