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On the beach. Hello and welcome to Outward, one of the top podcasts to listen to while you're convalescing in bed after a gorgeous, gorgeous little procedure. I'm Jill

Gil-Skiel Peterson, your host for this episode, and let me say, as a true quenassur of the

finest plastic surgery to be had, there's a lot of lies and omissions out there that they

use to make it seem like transsexuality isn't the glory and the achievement

that it is, not only to feel good in your body and put those dysphoric demons to rest,

but to be snatched and beautiful to the gods. Under this category of omissions, I would nominate

the way the whole phraseology of gender affirming care,

honey, it's a euphemism. It's a tidy little weird phrase that gives you no information,

so you don't really have to think about how fabulous it is to take hormones, remove hair,

train that voice, and get surged up. And the euphemism is also, I think, a way to

avoid talking about how hard it really is to get on that operating table and to get off.

And I'm not even talking about all this anti-trans legislation or all those insurance nightmares

or even saving up the money to pay the bills for

the main event. I'm talking about all the time, preparation, and money it takes to be cleared

for surgery in the first place and especially, especially to recover afterwards. And on today's

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