Doc Impossible@Impossible_PhD@hachyderm.io
Hmmm... I dunno, I'm kinda running out of steam here.
Guess I'll open the floor. Anyone got a question about something I didn't talk about, or want to add a comment to correct something I got wrong?
Jenny :TransButterfly: :3hearts:@SymTrkl@anarres.family
@Impossible_PhD@hachyderm.io Adding on to the "better access to surgeons" part: If you aren't getting The One Surgery, it's even worse. If I go to Mexico or Thailand or anywhere else where a vaginoplasty would only be "hideously expensive" instead of "ruinously unaffordable" without insurance, my sole option is a penile inversion, which wouldn't be my first choice anyway, but for obvious reasons the procedure isn't compatible with a phallus-preserving vaginoplasty. To my knowledge, literally every surgeon who will do a PPT is located in the United States, which means that the cost with insurance is probably going to more than the cost without insurance somewhere else, and last time I checked every one of those doctors wouldn't even consider a patient without insurance. And of those doctors, only a handful are willing and able to do a PPV, so on top of everything else, wait time and travel are going to be even worse than if I were getting a more common surgery.
