Not long ago, I was told by a surgeon that a team at his hospital was performing mastectomies on young women who were transitioning. My first thought was for all those women with breast cancer who were having that devastating surgery to potentially save their life. What would they make of younger females opting for “top surgery”, a jarringly jaunty term for such a brutal procedure? My second thought was, what the hell is the NHS doing performing (and presumably paying for) all those operations w
Transgender people overwhelmingly describe their lives after transitioning as “happier,” “authentic” and “comforting” despite a deluge of state legislation that seeks to restrict their access to health care and other aspects of life.
A biological female who identifies as a man in Chicago filed a federal lawsuit against a former employer and union over a health plan that denied coverage for transgender breast removal surgery.