Mia Wong
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And the number of people who do these procedures is so small that if you are looking to get these procedures, like, you can talk to the trans people in your area and they will know every single doctor who does it.
Because there's, like, three, maybe.
If you're lucky, there's, like, three.
Usually there's, like, one.
Like, even on the HRT front, sometimes, you know,
And I can speak from experience on this.
You know, it's often kind of an icebreaker of like, oh, which medical practice is giving you your HRT and down?
Because there's like two, maybe three if you're lucky.
And that's maybe for a whole region.
And, you know, a lot of trans people, maybe even most, live outside of what you think of as a few, you know, major metropoli.
But also, there was a, while I was looking into this, there was a case in 2017, this was before the Bishop's Ban, where a Catholic hospital in California, which on paper at least has fairly strong trans healthcare protections for the U.S.,
Where a priest with no medical experience comes in last minute, vetoes the top surgery for a trans man.
And they kick him out on the street still on the drugs, the pre-surgery drugs.
He sued them, rightly.