Response to Shawna

I find the question about Thailand and the issue of finances interesting. I think that in America the acceptance of gender reassignment surgery is much lower because we feel the need to put people in categories and if they fall somewhere in between the well structured categories, they are considered deviant. Doctors do not want to be associated with making people different from the norm when the goal is to usually bring people back into the norm. I think that is the problem with financing. No doctor in America can make it affordable so that an individual could even think to afford the surgery. In Thailand it could be more acceptable to express the desire to be a transgender. Doctors could be more used to performing the surgery so that it is less expensive.