IKR? I have had quite a few surgeries in my life. Some unnecessary, some perhaps necessary, some avoidable.

The thing I learned about surgery is the permanence of it. Once a thing is removed, it's gone. What they don't tell you, when they take a thing out - is how it interacts with ***everything*** else in your system, and oh, btw, you might crash without it.

The thing I learned about drug treatments, is that they, too, can cause permanent changes in your metabolic and endocrine cascades. I'm still healing from psych drugs, last taken 10 years ago. And that ain't even hormones! Egads. (I have a FtM trans friend, now going bald...and um, what is this doing to "his" ovaries?)

Sssssooooooooo I'm thankful I have no children and don't have to wrestle with blockers & surgeries. Permanent is permanent. I cringe at the affirming "top surgery," "bottom surgery" terms. Sounds so sweet, doesn't it? Sounds so much better than mutilation.