Feminization surgery

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www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexverman/acial-feminization-surgery-medical-transition

'To make something like FFS truly accessible — and to give trans people true agency over it — requires completely reimagining the capitalist medical system.'

Among many of them, it is considered a matter of life or death,

The US medical system has a lot to answer for. This is them pushing a medical treatment and using threatened suicide as a lever for all kinds of cosmetic surgery.

And of course, this is probably why nobody anywhere is doing genuine, long-term, thorough follow up studies, with different cohorts to examine whether all this treatment is genuinely helping or not.

If it was proven that these patients did equally well with CBT, the whole gravy train (and, I suspect, the hero complexes of some of the medics) would draw to a halt.

Er, I got told I likely can't even get repair for a vaginal tear that didn't heal correctly on the NHS. I know several women in a similar boat with pelvic or other issues relating to childbirth that they are not getting help with, plus many other people waiting for various treatments. I think that says it all for my opinion on this

Oh have just seen this isn't regarding NHS but still, I'm sure there are priorities similar overseas before they get down the list to facial cosmetic surgery!