It sounds like they’re being offered either. I assume other options are presented as well, but those aren’t things it’s effective to give people too far prior to release.

I get really frustrated with this line of thinking because it reeks of the idea that we need to create more women for the sake of the men (in order to stabilize their society). In principle I don’t think we should create people for anyone but themselves, and inevitably “solutions” to these issues involve coercing…

We went for a slight modification on Southern traditions. My maiden name is now my middle name AND is also his middle name now as well. It is our intention to repeat that in our children, who will have the choice to eliminate either name if they marry.

I’ve known a lot of people who waited who say that they feel like they’ve had very open discussions with partners before the marriage about things like sexual preferences, but...

AGH. Patients do this all the time! Relatively basic or cautionary treatments that may have lifestlye but NO survival benefits or physicians removing benign lesions are often credited with “saving” their lives. The reality is that most of them have no idea what “incidentaloma” or “benign” means, and their physician…

I just don’t understand why it’s so hard to not eat fish. When I realized what was happening to the tuna populations I stopped cold turkey. Sure it tasted great, but the future of my children and all of the other people in the world is a higher priority. Yet people act like that’s not even an option for them. Life is…

That damn website leaves little business cards in all the women’s bathroom stalls at my university.

Replacing it when its battery dies? That kind of wastefulness is specifically why I STOPPED using pads and tampons.

Thank you for the correction! I’ll have to read up on that distinction some more!

Depending on the blind person you speak to, they don’t necessarily consider themselves disabled. Although less militant than the deaf community, they do often have the sense that they’re more “differently abled” than “disabled”.

I agree with you about the state of your body. You are more functional and complete as a person in the body that you always knew you should have had.

It’s complicated. Is treating gender dysmorphia with SRS perpetuating/realizing a patient’s delusion? Or does the patient have the right to request whatever changes they want to their bodies, particularly when those changes are requested repeatedly over the course of many years and at at the cost of great…

It’s interesting to me that no one in these threads got curious and did any reading on this. Medicating these people just doesn’t seem to do anything for them. It’s funny how body dysmorphia like this has people suggesting she needs medications when sufferers of BIID seem to be effectively cured by just having their…

Eh... I have mixed feelings on this.

Not to throw water on what the one woman is saying about partners, but partners totally do get to come back for abortions. They don’t get to be there for the entire counseling process because you want to be sure that a woman is there of her own free will and is alright with him joining her in the procedure room, of…

I feel you. Basically the same story re: catching on to fitness after high school, and it’s like I can’t stop injuring myself. If it’s not one thing it’s another. My knee, my ankle, my foot, my hip... I don’t know what’s wrong with me. Did I cause this by not exercising enough when I was younger? Do other people…

Learning to cook is almost traumatic. My mother never allowed us in the kitchen at home because she felt like it was too much of a mess. Then in college I never lived in a situation where cooking my own food was a necessity, so I never learned then, either. Then in the “real world” I spent way more money eating out…

According to their website they have like 200+ varieties of imported cereal from all over the world, 30 varieties of milk, and some numerous topping options. It’s a cute concept. People go to specialized candy stores for exotic items. Why not cereals?

In medicine your stethoscope is more than equipment... It’s like this weird extension of you and your identity. That first stethoscope is this precious symbol of your vocation. I can’t even express how weird people are about stethoscopes. You get them engraved.

I don’t know what it is. When I was younger heroin was just something we heard about in old movies, and now when I call home I hear stories about so many people I went to school with dying of overdoses. It’s just tragic.