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So we're here with Mia Hughes.

We were just having this amazing discussion in the full episode about the non-binary chapter and these

quote non-standard individually customized procedures that are meant to create body types that don't exist in nature and you know

if I was to play devil's advocate here I might say something like, you know, whenever we intervene

cosmetically, we're creating something that is, let's say, an enhancement or some sort of modification

from the natural state of the body.

Proportionally, let's say if you are a hundred pound woman and you're five feet tall you probably would not have you know breasts of a certain size but you can go to a cosmetic surgeon and get those implants. Right?

So, now, the medical complications involved with breast implants

are non-existent compared to what we're talking about,

trying to reroute people's urethra and like create these organs which are so

prone to complications, but why doesn't W-Path just like like rebrand as a sexual cosmetic surgery group or something?

Like why do they say that this is medically necessary in life saving?

What, do you see what I'm saying?

Well, I don't have a moral problem with people wanting bizarre looking genitals,

but there's something really weird about the way this is being treated as a medical necessity?

It's insurance.

I mean the reason that everything is medically necessary is because you can only get insurance

coverage if it's medically necessary

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