[Picture: Polish national flag. Black text reads as follows: “I am a transman.
I come from a country in post-soviet Europe.
I have less than five gender therapists to chose from in my entire country of over 40 million citizens.
Even if my therapist diagnoses me with transsexuality, I have to take hormones for two years and get my top surgery done before I can change my legal gender. In the meantime, I am most likely to lose my job. Our unemployment rate is 20%. Losing my job means losing my insurence. No insurence = no therapy.
Changing my legal gender requires a legal lawsuit against my parents.
Yes, my parents can delay or stop my transition this way.
Plus, my ex employers have no obligation to give me work certificates for my new name if I worked for them before my transition. That pretty much means that after I change my legal gender, my CV is wiped clean.
A monthly supply of testosterone is 1/6 of my salary.
Top surgery is the cost of my six salaries.
Metoidoplasty costs me 41 salaries. This is three and a half years of work. And the closest possible doctor to perform it is over a thousand kilometers away.Your complaints about nasty comments and cis privilege makes me laugh”]
Something interesting to think about when everyone bitches about privilege when we (Americans) have a lot more rights than others in the word when it comes transitioning. It might not all be fair and right but remember someone always has it worse than you. Period.
