#065 - Transgender surgeries: Non-essential during Covid-19?

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#065 - Transgender surgeries: Non-essential during Covid-19?

It seems to me that if we lived in a culture where gender-affirming surgeries were acknowledged as life saving and the barriers to these surgeries were removed then the pain of having to postpone would be more manageable. I imagine all the barriers to getting these surgeries, and the prejudice from the medical community towards trans folks, makes these reasonable delays feel like another rejection and create more desperation.

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#049 - A good enough body

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#049 - A good enough body

About 13 years ago I was involved in a near fatal car accident. And I was the one who almost died. We, my coworkers and I, were driving from snowboarding in Colorado back to Utah to continue working as wilderness guides. I was 23 years old and for the most part thought I was going to live forever and didn’t really consider the vulnerability of living in a human body. As we crested a hill on I-70 we hit an elk, the truck rolled, and I was ejected out of the passenger side window going 70 miles per hour.

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