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It seems to bother you.

They are upfront about being a discriminatory website only accepting GENX & GENY.

You want to connect to others ?

What do you mean by "connect to others"?

I will say this, when I was put on moderation again with no reason given, that hurt.

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Why does this still bother you a few days later?

Is it you want to communicate "connect" with other trans people on the site and you are missing them?

I have a tendency to ruminate that goes back a long way. I think it's largely my way of coming to process and comprehend things that happen in my life. I also have a tendency to rehearse conversations that I anticipate that are for largely the same reasons.

This is this article on the Medicare issue:

http://www.washingtonblade.com/2013/12/ ... ne-gender/

There's also another article that I wanted to criticize:

http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/obama- ... -to-obama/

This ruling from the DAB actually has more to do with the laws and regulations covering Medicare than they do with the ACA. In fact, I don't think the ACA has anything to do with it.



This wording is somewhat confused. Section 1557 has never explicitly stated anything like that. This article is actually referring to an FAQ posted on the federal government's website that said that Section 1557 did not require that coverage. However, that has come into question, which might be why the FAQ was taken down.



The costs may be difficult to quantify, especially at first, with the large amount of pent-up need for transition-related coverage that has long gone unmet. As time goes on, though, the amount of coverage given, particularly for the one-time procedures such as SRS, will go down to a stable annual number. It's not clear, but I know GGPViper has posted figures on the number of people needing SRS, and they seem to run between 1 in 200 and 1 in 2000, which is a pretty small impact compared to many diseases.

There isn't much to respond to in the rest, but I do notice that they post the contact info for the DAB members. I'm guessing that they expect their readers to flood the DAB members with phone calls to try to "convince" them not to overturn the exclusionary NCD.

If you can stand to sit through this whole video, it's a pretty good one on trans health care:

http://transgenderlawcenter.org/archives/9517

EDIT: It gets good about 46 minutes in.

The U.S. Supreme Court has taken up a challenge to the ACA that the mandate requiring policies to include contraceptive-care
violates the religious rights of a corporate owner.

http://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/the-su ... -ca-45737/

This could have implication for trans people, because religious employers could use this to disallow any trans-care in their health insurance policies.

I'm feeling gender dysphoric over my genitals again.

I'm feeling down because it seems that for most people, when it comes to the need for transition-related care, are either indifferent to it or completely opposed.

It feels like an enormous void has opened up inside me, a black hole engulfing everything.

I'm feeling dysphoric about my genitals again today.

1 week post knee surgery. I can walk almost as good as I did before. it's healled pretty good. I have no idea how much this is actually going to cost me, but I should find out later on.

One less thing I have to deal with health wise during my transition, although I still need physical therapy and whatnot. But that's a matter of waiting the two weeks till the beginning of the year and scheduling.

What I'm thinking of working on next, is hair removal. I still have facial hair. I did some laser removal and it thinned it out, but didn't get rid of it. My problem is that a lot of the hair on my body is basically salt & pepper, and now it's greying. Most of the hair that grows in dark is gone now, but the lighter hairs are still there. I feel like laser is at the point of diminishing returns. I've never done electrolysis so I really don't know what that entails.

Does anyone have any experience with electrolysis?

I did the shock and pull method for hundred hours and e3000 in TX.

How fast can you do sessions. I know with laser, they didn't want to do them more than once a month. Can I do electrolysis every week? I haven't found anything that says anything about an answer to this question in my research. The closest it touches upon is saying that you may have redness for a while.

You can do different sides of you face or other body parts so you can go very often as you want.

People at your work will see your face is inflammed for a few days. If that is what you mean.

Ugh. I'm having gender dysphoria again. With the changes in the flashes and vision in my right eye--like I have this weird spot that appears in the field of vision from time to time--I might have a retinal detachment which could require surgery, which would mean lots more of medical debt or just letting myself go blind in my right eye--which I read is not so bad, provided you don't also go blind in your other eye, and it's my left eye that is my dominant eye. I'm seeing an ophthalmologist in a couple weeks for this.

I don't like the sound of having more medical debt. Prior to all this, I had zero debt.

Everything just looks like an impossibility.