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For a year and a half, NRC observed the gender clinic in Amsterdam. ‘It takes so much time to prove I’m a woman’ (www.nrc.nl)

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Gender care: The treatment of trans youth with puberty blockers is a Dutch invention that is now used worldwide. However, in an increasing number of countries, there is growing debate about this ‘Dutch Approach’. NRC spent a year and a half at the oldest and largest gender clinic in the Netherlands, where this care model was developed in the 1990s. „They think you can just roll into a transition…

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

We had a dutch friend who tried to transition once and this was what we heard about her experience, and worse things too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Holy damn that's a long read. One thing I learned trough a colleague though: you can get such procedures without a referral. It won't be covered under insurance though.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean yeah, it's an investigative journalist piece that took several years of interviews and work. I feel like shorter pieces that fail to address the nuance of a topic is a big part of why we're in this mess with trans healthcare in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

Ye, worth the read tho. But it doesn't quite fit on my train ride to work like the usual lemmy post. But: it's weekend now!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Uterus donations are a thing. You can volunteer to help someone with your "spare parts" :p