And, to be frank? Keeping the Benjamin standard is a big part of why SRS isn't something that can just be performed at your local hospital, or covered by your insurance. It's not like it's a horrible bad evil thing, but it was a start, that's all. We need fewer "celebrity surgeons" and more treating this like a medical procedure, like something you do for the patient's health care -- not something you have to scrape and save and build a life story around.
Nothing against life stories and the challenges that shape people -- I just think, and so do a lot of people, that this should be less like getting an extreme form of body mod (pay a lot up front, no recourse if you don't like it, lots of hoops to jump through) and more like, you know, a medical procedure.
People will have experiences like Alice did no matter what. But I think if we have less of the "life journey toward the big chop" and more of the "talk to your doctor about your options", the less you'll be seeing peer pressure to fit your identity into any one narrative.
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Date: 2011-10-21 08:07 pm (UTC)It doesn't, for a whole lot of people.
And, to be frank? Keeping the Benjamin standard is a big part of why SRS isn't something that can just be performed at your local hospital, or covered by your insurance. It's not like it's a horrible bad evil thing, but it was a start, that's all. We need fewer "celebrity surgeons" and more treating this like a medical procedure, like something you do for the patient's health care -- not something you have to scrape and save and build a life story around.
Nothing against life stories and the challenges that shape people -- I just think, and so do a lot of people, that this should be less like getting an extreme form of body mod (pay a lot up front, no recourse if you don't like it, lots of hoops to jump through) and more like, you know, a medical procedure.
People will have experiences like Alice did no matter what. But I think if we have less of the "life journey toward the big chop" and more of the "talk to your doctor about your options", the less you'll be seeing peer pressure to fit your identity into any one narrative.