Saturday, July 14, 2012

A Hypothetical Question

What if you reached a point in life that being born male (being a boy or later a man is gender, birth is sex) you know you should have been born female and been a girl and later a woman, and when you've reached the point you decide you're free to transition, you discover you can't? What would you do?

When I mean can't, it's not that you can't transition, but that your transition wouldn't be what you wanted, wouldn't be all that successful at making you adequately passable to be relatively stealth (invisible to others as just another woman), and would bankrupt you financially.

When I mean can't, it's because the Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) you take prescribed in the Standards of Care (SOC) required by the medical proceedures to qualify for sex affirmation surgery (formerly sex reassignment surgery) and become fully (birth certificate) legally female would destroy your mind and body in the process.

When I mean can't, you discover you're one of the few people who can't tolerate HRT and any amount over a very low dosage will crash your body and drive you into deeper depression about yourself and your life. And add you won't be passable without extensive and expensive surgeries, a transition would drive you deep in debt.

What would you do with your life?

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