Me: you have a soft kitty tumby….

if you or a loved one have been diagnosed with sleepy bitch disease you may be entitled to

The point i am making here is:

“After the first [trans-related] surgeries in the U.S. were performed in the mid-1960s, the field of transgender medicine grew rapidly — but that began to change in 1975, when a man named Paul McHugh became the chief of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Hospital. McHugh, who believed — and still believes — that being transgender was a form of mental illness, eventually shut down the hospital’s gender-identity program a few years after taking up his post. The decision caused a domino effect at other universities, pushing transgender surgery out of training hospitals. For the next few decades, it was mostly the purview of private practitioners who held their techniques close to the vest. “When I started, surgeries were largely proprietary,” says gynecologist Marci Bowers, a pioneer of [trans-related] surgery who has been in the field for over 14 years. Early in her career, she approached several surgeons hoping to learn their techniques, but all turned her away — transgender surgery, often a cash market, was not a field in which you shared your secrets. Lack of communication between doctors, combined with the lack of overall instruction in medical school, meant that transgender patients often had to rely on luck, persistence, and word of mouth to find the care they were looking for.”