Marina AísaDec 26, 2022

The new Spain's "Trans Law" 🏳️‍⚧️ is historical. It doesn’t only improve rights for trans people but also for lesbian cis-women and intersex people.

I haven't read much info about it in English and I believe it’s such a good Christmas 🎁 for the LGBT community so I'll explain it 👇

Show threadvera grey Dec 26, 2022
@marinaaisa legit if i wasn't trying to plan surgeries i would be making serious moves to join you in barcelona >_>
Show threadMarina AísaDec 26, 2022
@QuietMisdreavus most of surgeries for trans people are covered by the public Spanish Health Care System I believe. I don’t know if that changes anything 😅 I want you in Barcelona tho 🤗
Show threadvera grey 
@marinaaisa i'm already in line here at a couple clinics, it's probably faster to stay here for another year-and-a-half than to pick up and move first 😅 (dunno how it would be in Catalonia but i assume there would be some kind of waitlist)
Dec 27, 2022 at 12:34amWeb
Show threadMarina AísaDec 27, 2022
@QuietMisdreavus I think you are doing it right. Health care system here is free, very good and efficient but not the fastest due to waitlists. I wish it would be different!
Show threadvera grey Dec 27, 2022

@marinaaisa i feel like this is the tradeoff that you get in situations like this - either there's no centralization and everything's "market-based" and costs skyrocket when people realize that you can charge whatever the heck you want for something that people can't say no to (e.g. here in the US),

or there's some socially-acceptable amount of centralization, but still kneecapped by market thinking, and there's some baseline of care, but cost-cutting and austerity etc leave the system completely threadbare and unable to care for anyone who falls outside the norm (e.g. over in the UK)

and while i would love to see a socialist revolution and a proper resource allocation for the public good, i also don't expect it to be well tolerated by the US or EU 🤷‍♀️