Yes, precisely.
Some of the surgeries are well-documented and standard- mastectomy, penectomy, orchiectomy, hysterectomy. Those are sensible enough for someone who does need some kind of physical assistance with gender.
It's the plastics, the construction of excess parts for appearance, and the hopes up of the patients for function, that are really damning when you look at these procedures.
There are so many potential complications and no way to treat someone who's had these new surgeries done- the variation is insane.
The community of people who want or need this medical care is not to blame for the unsound medical practices or the neglect of patients at all. They are held to their silence as much by the doctors doing this as by anything else.
Activism, I think, takes a backseat to the fear that no doctor will treat.
@PickledPeppers wait until you get your first sickle cell case. They get treated like drug seekers by the medical field, but have a real disease that mainly affects younger black people.
There are genetic differences, they're more based on region of ancestry than race though, a black man from Sierra Leone is more likely to have sickle cell than one from London.
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