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Do you plan to medically transition (or have you already)? Why or why not
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I started my medical transition 7 years (and 2 days) ago. Because I'm older, and have been working most of my life, I had funds saved in my government mandated superannuation fund (sort of like a 401K in the US). I was able to access it to cover all of my surgeries using those funds.
I've had pretty much every surgery available to trans fem folk, and rushed through them in the first couple of years of my medical transition, and they've done a great deal to alleviate my dysphoria, but I'm not sure I'd necessarily do them all the same way again if I had the chance to do over.