@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.
@theartlav@anarres.family
@SymTrkl@anarres.family @Impossible_PhD@hachyderm.io I know one girl who did PPT in USA out of pocket. It is, indeed, absurdly expensive. But if you can pay odds are they would take you.
And at least Dr. Theerapong in Thailand offers PPT. He was my plan C.