[EvaMarie]

Well after jumping through all the hoops to get the psych letters needed for the SRS surgeon I can tell you they wont just do SRS on anyone.... Yes I probably could have found a psych that would have sold me a letter... But there are some good reasons they do what they do to screen people for surgery.... I don't agree with some of it, the RLE requirement to live "full time as a woman for a year" for example... If someone is fully informed and they want the surgery it should make no difference how they live, whether they have a "female name" or not, ect... Whether ultra feminine or as a "man" with a vagina or part time, in between or whatever as long as you know what your getting into people should be free to do whatever they want with their bodies.... Its not necessarily an easy thing to do going from MTF socially and the costs for some can be very high... Not everyone can "pass" as the opposite sex, people who cant or just dont want to for whatever reason but want the surgery shouldn't be forced to have to try and be someone they arent.... What parts someone has down there OEM or not, to change your body to be more comfortable with it shouldn't be determined by how well some psych thinks you meet the female or male binary... While it does make sense to me to screen out people that are just batshit crazy... Feeling like you have to prove your "really TS", or "really a woman in the wrong body" to some psych (or two) who can never truly have a clue what its like living with GD just sucks Ive never got any benefit from all these psych visits and as far as Im concerned its all just been a waste of time and $$$... Ive known I wanted SRS since I first heard it was possible nearly 35 years ago...

So Im sure you can figure out how I answered the poll