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<p>I suspect I’ve known far more trans women than you or most others here, and if that’s how anyone thinks prior to transition (not that I’ve ever met anyone who has), they are soon disabused of the notion once they actually start living in the world as women and are perceived as such. And can even get yeast infections, believe it or not! </p>
<p>Nor, the last I heard, did women without periods or uteruses – and there are women who live as girls and women their entire lives without them – suddenly become non-actual women. </p>
<p>It’s one thing to express opinions on whether group insurance coverage is appropriate for this kind of surgery (not that I believe the numbers having it would be more than minuscule, given how long the process generally takes before people have surgery, and given how young one would have to be when beginning the process). It’s another thing entirely to denigrate a group of people already subject to enormous discrimination and rates of violence (including murder) with what amount to generalized personal insults which clearly are not based on any actual personal, medical, or scientific knowledge, and grotesque, obscene comparisons of real people’s genitals to sex toys. It’s another for people who’ve probably never met a trans person to make ipse dixit pronouncements about the alleged “harm” of transition (or transition-related surgeries) without ever having read, I’m sure, a single study about them. The same with comments about lack of medical necessity, and comments failing to recognize that if you’ve known you’re trans your entire life, and still feel that way in college, it’s not going to change. </p>
<p>I would truly love to know how the sex toy comment – and probably half of the other comments here – didn’t violate the TOS. I’ll be reporting a lot of them; we’ll see what happens. Please remember that insulting comments are no less so when directed at an entire group than when directed at a particular member of that group. There do happen to be trans people who are members here, after all!</p>