Response to one of the questions that Shawna proposed in a previous blog..

In Thailand, gender reconstruction surgery is relatively inexpensive. Why do you think these surgical procedures are more expensive in the United States?


I believe it is because most Americans do not see gender reassignment necessary. So if the surgery is overprice here in America, not so many procedures will be done in the U.S., so we as a country will not have to think or deal with the topic of transgenders any time soon. Also, because trangenders and gender reassignment surgery is not socially accepted in the U.S. in many ways, individuals probably do not undergo this type of procedure often, so to make a good profit it will almost be necessary to overprice this procedure. Finally, the U.S. is more advance in medicine and science even though certain countries have been performing gender reassignment surgeries longer.