This drives me mad. Hair removal should NOT be covered by our healthcare since it's a luxury, and one that can be taken care of effectively in a variety of ways WITHOUT the use of doctors.
Yes, I would LOVE to see everyone in my lovely country get everything they want from our systems, but resources are finite on all fronts.
Prioritizing hair removal, or any aesthetics, through the healthcare system not only means taking money and medical supplies away from people with legitimate medical afflictions but also means that to get it, they'll need a doctor's note or consent of some kind and that means more doctor's appointments, appointments that add up in terms of time in a country where people can be waiting up to a month to see their family doctor to have a concerning lump looked at.
I also have a bit of a personal problem with even things like plastic surgery for anyone with dysmorphia of any kind being covered. I don't want people killing themselves over what they see in the mirror, but it's INCREDIBLY worrying that we, through therapy and acceptance, tell our dysmorphic youth that eating disorders and cutting off their imperfections with scissors will not make them happy and stable while simultaneously handing out breast implants so trans women stop threatening to kill themselves (like Bria, or Labelle's fave example,
Liz Eden)
I don't really care that it's hypocritical because honestly they are different situations, but what I do care about is the message it sends to the already confused and rejected youth who are told that loving themselves is the first step to being loved; We're willing to "fix" these women, but you're not worth it.
And the worst part? Despite being handed all that, despite being prioritized over others with very similar issues, as Labelle proves here it's
still not enough.
Labelle STILL wants more.
I'm not even exaggerating when I say that if hair removal was universally covered by our health care (which I hate to admit, in some cases (as Labelle mentions) it IS but it's thankfully hard to get) people like Labelle (and by this I don't mean trans women, I mean entitled people, like Lebelle) would still cry thatit isn't enough.
The next step would be to have trips to makeup artists covered (despite the fact that many non-trans-women in our country grow up without access to makeup and aren't taught how to apply it) or trips to the hairdresser (again, despite many low income families in our country cutting their own hair because it's a luxury)
It's not even that I'm trying to make a "slippery slope" kind of argument here, it's that these are actually the very real, very natural, next steps in Labelle's argument.
It's really sad.
And again, I wish we lived in a world or even a country where all Canadians COULD access these kinds of luxuries and look and feel exactly how they want, but our system is finite, and it's so incredbly selfish to complain that your healthcare won't cover
hair removal when it's a choice between that and someone's cyst biopsy, or RX renewals.
I just can't fathom being that selfish, that entitled and that self centered.
fftopic: but I've been seeing plenty of DesmondIsAmazing horrorcows and pedoforks, so the creepy liberal messages she gave in these comics are hard for me to ignore. It's like a pattern.
