05-10-2023, 05:15 PM
Actually the first step was back in May 2021 when my first referral was sent... Then two years of stupidity, juggling around with questions, asking me again and again am I sure, am I trans enough to diagnosis in May 2023. And then I got stuck because I was too honest to the psychologist who suggested (govt backed) therapy which is mostly about body/Self image thyings and past trauma which isn't directly involved with my transition.
Regardless, trans clinic used this as a crutch to halt my treatments which in Finland, we get none of before diagnosis and apparently not even after if they find some make believe excuse to delay things. Not that the coverage would be great. I can get some very basic HRT, five sessions of pro laser, vocalchord feminisation surgery which is actually one of the coolest things covered here. (The quite new Korean technique, surgeon who does them is known to be exceptionally talented, I mean world class exceptionally talented, I've heard very much good things about his work.) And then there's GCS which in here is traditional PI surgery, but the results are quite amazing and most are successful... There wasn't much information and Finns don't speak out much at all so it was very difficult to find out anything about it, but the few results I've seen are mind blowing, 100% cis passable, 100% functional.
So there's pretty much all of it. None of the surgeries considered "cosmetic" (Note, cosmetic to perhaps a cis person, but to us its a different story.) are covered at all, so anything else is pocketed. I'm very lucky that my girlfriend is gifting me full body contouring for my 40th birthday and then some small cosmetic fixes I would love to get. She's my angel, my saviour. Without her, I would probably never get my dream body and never get my dysphoria truly dealt with.
So yea, "first step", kind of. First step into actual real deal treatment rather than bullshit, lies, delays and playing ping pong with my life. Note that every single thing they do always works on at least one month delay, even tiniest meetings and things that take fifteen minutes to deal with are always delayed for ages every single time. Some times the duration between meetings is three to four months. Its ridiculously badly organised and painfully slow and I'm sure this is by design. Well, at least my prison sentence in a messed up body will now start to finally shorten.
Regardless, trans clinic used this as a crutch to halt my treatments which in Finland, we get none of before diagnosis and apparently not even after if they find some make believe excuse to delay things. Not that the coverage would be great. I can get some very basic HRT, five sessions of pro laser, vocalchord feminisation surgery which is actually one of the coolest things covered here. (The quite new Korean technique, surgeon who does them is known to be exceptionally talented, I mean world class exceptionally talented, I've heard very much good things about his work.) And then there's GCS which in here is traditional PI surgery, but the results are quite amazing and most are successful... There wasn't much information and Finns don't speak out much at all so it was very difficult to find out anything about it, but the few results I've seen are mind blowing, 100% cis passable, 100% functional.
So there's pretty much all of it. None of the surgeries considered "cosmetic" (Note, cosmetic to perhaps a cis person, but to us its a different story.) are covered at all, so anything else is pocketed. I'm very lucky that my girlfriend is gifting me full body contouring for my 40th birthday and then some small cosmetic fixes I would love to get. She's my angel, my saviour. Without her, I would probably never get my dream body and never get my dysphoria truly dealt with.
So yea, "first step", kind of. First step into actual real deal treatment rather than bullshit, lies, delays and playing ping pong with my life. Note that every single thing they do always works on at least one month delay, even tiniest meetings and things that take fifteen minutes to deal with are always delayed for ages every single time. Some times the duration between meetings is three to four months. Its ridiculously badly organised and painfully slow and I'm sure this is by design. Well, at least my prison sentence in a messed up body will now start to finally shorten.