Posted on 04/11/2020 5:55:56 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted life for billions of people, forcing the world to deal with a sudden loss of jobs, security, and regular health care. But for those who identify as transgender, these barriers have existed for years, and advocates fear the pandemic may only make them worse.
One transgender woman, who will be referred to as Jane out of fear for her safety, left her home in a right-leaning town along Florida's Gulf Coast for a homeless shelter in New York City so she can get better access to medical care. She's waited years to get gender affirming surgeries, and finally had two of the necessary procedures scheduled for the coming months.
But since coronavirus started ravaging through the country, the governors of many states, including New York, have ordered hospitals to cancel or postpone elective procedures. Now, Jane's facial feminization surgery and orchiectomy (surgery to remove testicles) have been canceled until further notice.
"Everything I was doing and progressing has been taken," Jane told CBS News. "...None of us know when this is going to be over. So we're all just sitting around. It's been torture."
Amita Swadhin, who identifies as a non-binary femme queer person, is the founding director of Mirror Memoirs, a nonprofit that advocates for LGBTQ people of color who survived child sexual abuse. They said that for people living with gender dysphoria, a condition that causes distress because of the mismatch between biological sex and gender, getting surgery is a "matter of life or death."
"Many of our people struggle with suicidal ideation because what they see physically on their body and how they think of themselves, how they experience their gender, is dissonant," they told CBS News. "Having those surgeries is the way to have more alignment for who they truly are."
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Transgender/Transgenderism = aberration
Is this thread a sign that we’re getting back to abnormal?
Does the American Psychiatric Association consider transgenderism and non-binary femme queerism to be gender dysphoria and gender dysphoria to be a variation of normal?
What is the suicide rate before and after?
I lost brain cells trying to read that.
I don’t know about the American Psychiatric Association, but I think they are just deviated preverts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbWfryswRxU
Amita Swadhin is an educator, storyteller, activist and consultant dedicated to fighting interpersonal and institutional violence against young people. Her commitments and approach to this work stem from her experiences as a genderqueer, femme queer woman of color, daughter of immigrants, and years of abuse by her parents, including eight years of rape by her father.
Now you’re just being cruel ;-)
I can only predispose this person is a Transgender because of his bio. He has suffer years of abuse by his parents, including eight years of rape by his father.
That is why he is a transgender.
Yep, gender dysphoria is a mental illness not a physical medical condition.
the transgender defect should be counted as likely cause of covid deaths
Just shaking my head!
boo freaking hoo
While not trying to be insensitive I have never been a part of a live saving emergency bilateral orchiectomy for gender affirmation. Sorry. I have seen emergency orchiectomty unilaterally for torsion. But come on. Not every thing is life threatening.
...daughter of immigrants, and years of abuse by her parents, including eight years of rape by her father.
They’re not sending their best. Donald Trump
CRY ME A RIVER.....I COULD CARE LESS
We’ve already seen libs exploring the race angle and the fag angle, and the climate change angle. I guess it’s time to roll in the tranny angle now. Stay tuned for the feminazi angle, the poor downtrodden “immigrant” angle, the homeless angle, etc.. All the standard liberal victim-group tropes.
Definitely a drama queen.
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