For one, I’m glad the little boy is with the relatives. So the mother fights two years for custody and then shoots up in the car. Well, sorry, she does not deserve custody of her child. I know a woman that had sole custody of her son as the father was absent from her life. One day mom decided to get high and then died…

I have a feeling we’re going to look back this at this period with horror and disgust, as we let mentally unstable people and even children (!) decide that they should go through life with permanent, serious, surgery reprucissions and unproven and untenable hormonal supplementation

So you are assuming that the men are not crediting or asserting your ideals, because specifically because you are not only a woman but younger? So you have reiterated and understand that you, yourself are a sexist and agist?

You can’t have it both ways, because you don’t see value their own ideals and values. yourself.

No, I was not being sarcastic. I am a woman, a woman of color in fact. I work with mostly men and I have received the help of some men during my career. I don’t see anything wrong with it. As I said before, some men realize that there is sexism. I don’t see it as depending on men, I see it as buddies helping buddies.…

This is a great technique but you don’t need a group of like minded women to make it work. You just need a group of like minded people.

I just thought of something:

What if, to make sure you get your point across, you have an agreement with someone else in the room where they will reiterate your idea and then give you credit? I’d call it “magnification” or something along those lines. This idea — my idea — is a good idea.

So it took 7 years for Obama to listen to his female staffers? Is that what I’m supposed to take away from this?

I wonder if there’s a second depression for trans people that comes with realizing altered genitalia doesn’t fix everything. I watched my cousin go off the deep end after her surgery and I always suspected that was the catalyst. Although maybe an unstable man doesn’t just transition to a stable woman.

No, you would be wrong. I don’t give a fuck what your cherry-picked links say. People require food, water, and the very most basic health care (setting a broken bone, for instance). Seeing a shrink and/or having your dick cut off are not medically necessary, and if you commit suicide because you don’t get either, it’s…

Whoever covers it, the surgery will be much less expensive in the long run than years of therapy and medications for trying to deal with what not having the surgery causes. The depression, anxiety, hopelessness, thoughts of self-harm, etc. Getting the surgery now will save the huge expense of 35 years of inevitable…

You helped pay for my necessary hernia surgery when I was enlisted. Sorry no one asked you if that was cool with you before they signed off on it.

“Are they trying to do everything they can to make her kill herself?”

I think the issue is that most people wouldn’t consider this medically necessary. Not by a long shot.

I wonder if there’s a second depression for trans people that comes with realizing altered genitalia doesn’t fix everything. I watched my cousin go off the deep end after her surgery and I always suspected that was the catalyst. Although maybe an unstable man doesn't just transition to a stable woman.

I have but one concern.

Uh, you’re welcome? I am genuinely curious about how Healthcare is handled in prison but thanks for letting me know I helped you out!