Trinetra Haldar Gummaraju Instagram – What if I told you I find the left as beautiful as the right, dorsal hump, superciliary arches, glabella, chin, acne scars, stubble included? What if I told you it was never about “beauty” at all? If I didn’t consider my former face beautiful, I wouldn’t celebrate it in a hundred odd photos and it wouldn’t feature on your screens. Gender affirmation and the pursuit of beauty aren’t mutually exclusive but there is a distinction there. 🙂
While no gender affirming procedure can ever be proof of your spirit and identity, FFS is something I’ve known many of my trans sisters to undergo, from full time activists to models and designers. It’s not as uncommon as you think. According to the National Transgender Discrimination Survey Report on Health and Health Care, at least 80% of transgender people have either taken HRT/GAHT (hormone therapy) or want to at some point, and surgery prevalence according to various sources is anywhere between 30-50%. We don’t currently have solid data in the country, but access to gender affirming care in any form – from dermatology, psychotherapy, endocrinology, to reconstructive surgery – is severely lacking. If you’re a doctor that practises in any of these branches, I urge you to look into transgender medicine and how you could contribute. It would save us a ton of money and resources and improve access. From the kind of work I see across the world, there’s most certainly a market for it in a country as large as ours, also opening doors to trans medical tourism.
The more you know. x | Posted on 18/May/2024 16:13:19
