Or the issue of surgery and how that's sort of irrelevant to a lot of trans people. I said as much in my article 22 years ago. I guess I'm just huffy because shouldn't my article have swept the nation and educated the entire population a long time ago?
The friend who was visiting works in medical records at a hospital. She said the hospital classifies people as male or female based on their genitalia. So if a post-op trans woman gets prostate cancer, the hospital can't deal with it and maybe insurance doesn't pay for it or something.
My response was, why don't they just make a rule that if a body part is in your body they treat it regardless of your gender? Oh no, they could never pass a rule like that, she said, it would just be too big and overwhelming to deal with. I said, for god's sake, Obamacare is overhauling the entire medical industry in major, major ways. I'm sure they can find some way to change this particular rule when the solution seems so obvious.
