Thread by @AlexPetrovnia

Update; just heard I cannot be scheduled for February, meaning my surgery is postponed for a 6th time and I'll have to start the process entirely over in a new city and a new state, relearning all the regulations. I'm so tired. I feel like I have nothing left to give.

https://twitter.com/AlexPetrovnia/status/1488358907252719619

"Frustration" is too small a word. "Anger" has more energy than I'm currently able to muster. "Exhaustion" is probably closest.
I just want to be able to exist in peace. I jumped through all the hoops put in place. I did everything they required of me, and it didn't matter.

It's been over a year now.
The first time, I got two letters of recommendation and got diagnosed with gender identity disorder. I was rejected 24 hours before my surgery bc my insurance said the doctor who diagnosed me with GID wasn't a legitimate person to get a letter from.

So I got another letter of recommendation. The second time, I was rejected 24 hours before my surgery bc insurance said I needed to be on HRT for at least a year before getting a hysto, which they hadn't mentioned the first time.

So I waited until I'd been on HRT for a year. The third time, I was told I needed to have been "socially transitioned" for at least a year and a half.

So I proved I'd socially transitioned for a year and a half. The fourth time, the hospital was too full with COVID patients to take me.

So I waited. The fifth time, my insurance issued my policy in my deadname, despite that not being my legal name for over a year and having had the documentation of that change for over a year.

They wouldn't fix it fast enough, so my surgery slot was given away. Today, the sixth time, there was no room for me on the patient list. I started this process in August of 2020 and here I am, in January of 2022, with nothing whatsoever to show for it.

I was told I could try again in July. I'm moving to another state in May, where none of this work will transfer and I will need to start this process over from scratch.

I am a trans man with endometriosis and anxiety, depression, PTSD and EDS that are exacerbated by my estrogen levels. This hysto is medically necessary, but it has consistently been treated as a luxury by transphobic insurance providers.

I talk about this because it's important for people to realize just how hostile medicine is to trans people, and just how inaccessible medically necessary treatments are. I'm white, educated, relatively affluent. I have insurance. I'm the best case scenario. And I am devastated.