After reflecting on my options on what I would like to cover for my final online exhibition, I would like to research more on the types of gender affirming surgery there is for the trans community as well the trials and errors the medical field went through to get to the modern procedures we use today.
Just as the queer community faced discrimination, so did the trans community. Many times has the trans community tried to advocate for the availability and development of trans health care to help those who are suffering from gender dysphoria. It is when one of the first ever trans women underwent gender affirming surgery and support from the trans community did a movement finally start. A movie called “The Danish Girl” reflects this as it was loosely based on the real trans woman named Dora Richter. After facing discrimination, and refusals to be operated on, she eventually had opportunities to work with some of the first established trans health institutions to go ahead with her procedure.
Her procedure was one of the first that will kickstart a movement to better advise and give access to the trans community to gender affirming healthcare. However, these surgeries were never one and done, with the medical community having to learn and grow to give better appealing results and minimize any risk factors. Now anyone with the correct resources today can have the opportunity to alleviate their gender dysphoria with all the available programs open today along with many support groups.
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