It makes sense that it's low
Posted by Lial on 2024-December-25 20:25:59, WednesdayIn reply to Trans bottom surgery rare (under 10%) posted by Pharmakon on 2024-December-24 01:28:29, Tuesday
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The media very heavily overplays the presence surgery plays in the majority of transgender people's lives. It is certainly an aspect of our collective experiences, but cost and preference keeps the number lower than the near unanimity with which pundits ascribe it. The fact that our experiences tend to be explained and portrayed by those who are not of our community is to blame for its shock. Hormone therapy plays a far more substantial role in most transgender people's experiences. It is overall more affordable, and, importantly, many people undergo significant enough physical change that they are, if not fully satisfied, content to forego the rigamarole of surgical procedure if they were not prior. (The latter is in-part the situation I find myself in.) This isn't to say that its relatively low frequency is entirely of our own volition. Affordability, wait lists, etc., are impediments which keep the prospects low for many. An increase in surgical procedure under more idealized conditions would be far from a shocking conclusion, and I don't believe it would be a negative matter if an increase did occur. That's just the thoughts of this tgirl here, though. |
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