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Anonymous

Bravo, Dibuja, bravo! If you're making both sides angry, and confrontational, you're doing something right!

Hazard Grin

I see a lot of people here talking about how Jago missing the mark on this one and I'm just wondering what mark? The premise is pretty simple; a teenager has gone through some level of medical sex reassignment and now regrets it -- a decision they may no longer take back. Regardless of where you stand politically, in this scenario (which, even if rare, is very possible), nothing said is out of place.

Egor A. Palchyk

There's several issues here. One, it's statistically unfounded. The satisfaction rate for gender reassignment surgery is ridiculously high, I believe on the order of 97%. Comapre that to something like knee replacement surgery's...I believe 73%. Two, in almost every country, it takes many years of painstaking effort just to get hormones from your doctor, much less get the surgery. And, this is something unique just to this particular case, as other folks can get those same hormones for other reasons without as much as a question by your GP. So, by the time they can even get it, transgender folks are more likely to commit suicide than are to get the medical care they require. If you wish to know more, Abigail Thron has an excellent video on the topic called "The Crisis in the British Healthcare System". It's focused on the UK, but the broad strokes are pretty common. And three, this is a commonly used line by the politicians and wealthy people that wish to exterminate transgender folks to lobby their government as to why hormones for transgender folks shouldn't be allowed and why gender reassignment surgery should be banned. This is why some folks are upset. It may seem like a harmless joke, but it's causing genuine levels of harm to a lot of people whose only wish is to live and to be themselves.