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Originally Posted by Kätzchen
I liked the questions you posed around GRS because the article I found about what happened to the Transgender Woman in Colorado (Jane Doe) clearly presented the argument on the way a person either has to have access to the best insurance in the world and access to proportionate income in order to hurdle the process of getting competent licensed medical care for gender reassignment surgery. Jane Doe stated that lack of money and qualified health insurance coverage is probably the number one reason why GRS is so hard to obtain, for members who need it but can't get it.
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Yes, trans men and trans women will do a number of unsafe things in an attempt to get relief. There is a lot of purchasing of illegal hormones, for example. This is because they can't get care due to lack of insurance. Plus, of course, bigotry. 41% of trans people attempt suicide.