herbie herbie:
It's a medical procedure, that's the way it works.
Used to be a guy here with some kind of growth on his neck that made him look like he had two heads. Little kids would scream and run at the sight of him. I used to joke that I'd hire him to man the Complaints Dept. They said surgery wasn't covered.
He got disability and picked up cans out of the ditch for a decade until he died.
I'm sure just doing the damn surgery and letting the guy have a normal life would've been a more sensible choice.
While the surgery is now be covered as a medical procedure it certainly doesn't mean that trans-gendered people have anymore right to expect or get quicker access to the surgical suites and specialists than the rest of the population no matter how much protesting they do.