It's really quite bizarre how much work in trans healthcare bases itself on the idea that a patient who deliberately seeks out the Penis Removal Doctor and says "Yes, Penis Removal Doctor, I am certain that I would like to have my penis removed" might be lying to the Penis Removal Doctor, so that they can have their penis removed without actually wanting that.
Because in the US you can sue because you’re not satisfied with the outcome. The outcome is almost always sub-optimal by virtue of the state of medical technology in the current year. The doctor has to have the patient “prove” it so the patient can’t come back and sue afterwards.
So ignoring that the satisfaction rates for these procedures are extremely high, tumblr user elizabisme, please explain how the fuck american legal procedures make it so that the gender clinic in Norway asks patients what clothes they wear while masturbating and deny treatment if they answer "wrong".
Would you like to explain to the audience how asking teenagers "do you think about your parents when you masturbate" was intended to guard a Norwegian hospital from a kind of lawsuit that does not happen in Norway?
Oh, but before you answer, mind filling out a form about which of your body parts you're most uncomfortable with, so you can't sue me, a Norwegian who is not practicing medicine in the united states of america, for medical malpractice within the scope of the laws of a country I do not live or work in?
