Transition: 2001-2004. Fully stealth since 2002 (had sex reassignment surgery & changed all of my documents). My last transition procedure was voice feminization surgery.
Transition: 2001-2004. Fully stealth since 2002 (had sex reassignment surgery & changed all of my documents). My last transition procedure was voice feminization surgery.
How hard was it for you to get the medical care you needed in the early 2000s?
Were/are your parents and family supportive?
So, I’m from Romania. Even now medical care for trans issues is abysmal, back then it was essentially non existent. The only reason I was lucky enough to get the good medical care I have, is that my parents had the resources and connections to make it happen. In 2000, I started seeing psychologists. I did that for a while, then I had to see a psychiatrist who had to give me a gender identity disorder diagnosis in order to start HRT with a endocrinologist. I’m thankful for that year of therapy, it weed out any another possible causes for my feelings. My parents paid for everything, surgery in Thailand (SRS), US (FFS and breast augmentation), South Korea (voice surgery), living alone in another city… they were supportive because for them being trans was way better than being a gay boy, because they saw and see being trans as something that can be fixed through transition - after which you just fit in normally with everybody else. After I had SRS I changed my documents - and because even now there is no regulated procedure to do so legally, you essentially have to sue and hope that the court grants your legal change, and it required SRS.
I mean no disrespect to your parents, their support is amazing, but I am cracking up over them being so homophobic that they went all the way around to going full pro-trans. “As long as you’re not a gay boy, we cool.”
it’s literally the kind of thing Hank Hill would do, turns out that boy ain’t right. walks in on bobby kissing a boy and freaks out, learns the word “transgender” and immediately tells her to go clothes shopping with her mother and sister.
Not sure if I’m making things up but I think in Iran you’re allowed to marry a man if you transition into a woman, which is funny because in a way it’s more progressive than the US
You’re allowed to marry (or just date, or fuck) whoever you want in the US, regardless of the gender of anyone involved. Meanwhile in Iran being gay carries the death penalty.
As long as you don’t care about the social consequences, sure. But even that, not for very much longer.
Iran forcing gay people to transition or face a potential death penalty is incredibly regressive.
Not saying it’s a good thing. I just consider it ironic taking into account the extremely transphobic political atmosphere in the US right now.