A terrific essay by Andrea Long Chu on the only prerequisite that should be required for trans surgeries: a demonstration of want.

The Morning News https://ift.tt/2QnyhM8

I was not suicidal before hormones. Now I often am... I tell you this not because I’m cruising for sympathy but to prepare you for what I’m telling you now: I still want this, all of it. I want the tears; I want the pain. Transition doesn’t have to make me happy for me to want it.

↩︎ The New York Times

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