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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They should be treating him for the abuse, not changing his sex.
Eight years?! I’m lucky if I last 2 minutes.
LOL.
What is the suicide rate before and after?Much higher after. The surgery is never quite what they expect, though not always equally bad and some learn to live with it.
It also seriously weakens the body, so an early grave is still likely.
Unconditionally banning the surgery would save lives, even if some commit suicide without it.
I wonder how many disassociated personalities she has?
No wonder his disassociated personality identifies as a woman.
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