Here's the Remilia thread which should have more details for anyone curious. IIRC some drama was connected to the manager paying for the SRS and getting a discount surgeon, so it was his fault it ended in 41%.
Well, while how much you pay for your surgeon isn't the
best indicator of quality...
...you generally don't want to just automatically go for the lowest bidder.
Kev's amhole would be a lot less problems if Kev had done the usual amount of research--even if you're taking full advantage of having docs who will refer you over. This is actually
why shutting down places discussing bad SRS surgeries and surgeons is harmful
to trans people. It's not even a bad thing if it convinces somebody that, y'know what? Dysphoria just isn't
that bad. You want to ensure that people who
do go ahead with it are well-informed about what they're getting, how it can go wrong,
and who they should avoid for surgery.
It is, after all, a one-and-done surgery. You can't get a re-do, really, if it turns out badly, or you got shit results. You can't get it
undone. I wasn't kidding about our reconstructive surgeries being pretty shit, too, though they
do tend to get better results on a virgin pelvis (as in, one that nobody's cut up already). My issues with troons and girlcock are actually a
lot more with how rapey they are--I don't care what gender you identify as, rape is rape. It doesn't matter
how you (try to) force somebody to consent, the important part is that
they are not consenting.
Given how
routine Tumblr was about trying to remind everybody to not be rapey, you'd think the Tumblr oldfags would have gotten the memo, yet they clearly did not.
I think Kevin is full of shit when he says he took "Kathryn" from someone that he knows. He's recently stated that the intro music for Voyager makes him cry. The captain in the Voyager series is named Kathryn. Not Catherine, not Katherine, but Kathryn. When he mentioned the Voyager intro music thing I looked it up, figured this is where he got his name from too. Also the names Kevin and Kathryn are similar. These are the reasons I think he chose the name he chose.
Also, how many true female acquaintances do you imagine someone like Kevin has had in his life? Not many.
Maybe he's telling the truth and the name does come from a friend of his, I don't fucking know or care really. I do know he's full of shit and my own suspicions make slightly more sense to me than what he says.
I wouldn't be surprised if he
did think Kathryn Janeway was a friend of his.