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Hi girls,

Luci, I surely will share anything I can and don’t hesitate to ask me about it here or private. So far as I can say:

Surgery
I’m sure as Catherine said, you will do your researches and will go for professional help if you have any doubt. When we decide to do it, for the surgery itself, there are two options we can consider:
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[li]Mini-SRS (also known as Shallow Depth Vaginoplasty or … )[/li]
[li]Full-SRS[/li]
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Mini-SRS in fact means going for everything but the Vaginoplasty which is easier to recover, less risky, doesn’t need hair removal and of course no dilation afterward but as a trade off, no experience of penetrative vaginal sex afterward either .

These two links are pretty good about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBqHVIpzY4U
https://www.mtfsurgery.net/vulvoplasty.htm

Regarding surgeons
Currently Gender Centre in Sydey only suggest these three doctors which Dr. Ives is the only choice in Australia:

Dr Suporn
http://www.supornclinic.com/

Andrew Ives
Contact 03 9533 2019
http://www.andrewives.com.au/

Dr Chettawut
http://www.chet-plasticsurgery.com/
Tel: (668) 3133-5836

If you decide to go with Dr Ives, From your first call and surgery appointment, it will take a year.
It needs a private health insurance with extra cover to support the surgery, you can ask his office to send the list of items to check with your insurance.

Out of pocket cost of mini srs is about 16k then medicare returns about 2k. and for full srs it’s 18k. We should also consider the cost of the trip and being there for 2 weeks.
In case we don’t have enough savings for the surgery and the trip, including having no investment property to sell …, we can take the money out of our superannuation for it.

and for the surgery to be done, 2 support letters from 2 independent psychologist are needed, one dated less than a year before it and the other 3 month.

Catherine,
Thanks a lot for your kind and thoughtful advises. I really appropriate it and will consider it

Cheers girls

[adrianadmin]

Hi Lucy
Good to start your research well in advance of such life changing procedure.
Research, research, research. Remember, it’s your body, your responsibility.
What conclusion can you come to with cost and location out of the equation?
Enjoy the journey, this is just the start to a spectacularly liberating life of endless opportunities you never thought possible.

With Love and respect

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Hi Sana,
It might be old but wisdom never changes.
Make sure you do your research ……throughly …… You’re the one who has to live with yourself longgafter the dust has settled. Revision surgery is expensive if there was something over looked in optimism
If you were to take the cost and location out of the equation, would Melbourne still be your answer.?
Another way to look at any health matter ; my body my responsibility.

With Love and respect.

[adrianadmin]

Wow such an old topic!

I’m going to do SRS in Melbourne this November with Dr. Ives and will share my experience with you girls here in general I’m optimistic about it

[adrianadmin]

Finally, someone who knows his stuff.
The health and well-being of many of the TG community would be so enhanced with some one of his ilk here in Australia.

I sadly noticed the recent forced resignation of Australia’s’ one and only research Endocronoligist who worked extensively in the field of TG health, Dr Jon Hayes. He leaves a very large hole in the field of endocrinology which goes well beyond testosterone and estrogen.

There is a lesson to be learnt from this act by the Medical Council. If you think TG Heath is going to be available to you in the future, I’d think again. It’s going backwards at an alarming rate.

If anyone is interested in hearing/seeing Dr Power here in Australia, leave your comments below and I’ll see what can be done.

With Love and Respect

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Hi Sara.
I am still planning my month and very interested tho.
I don’t have to baby sit do I lol
Jen

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Magnificent.
Thanks Emma.

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No problem at all with us Shana.

Jan and Caitlin.

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A lovely Saturday night.

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Thanks to Shanalee and all who helped organise one of my most memorable events of our community.
It was pretty special spending four days with wonderful friends in a beautiful setting experiencing all sorts of new encounters.
Unfortunately this photo is only eleven of our fourteen group members.
Hope we can do it again.
Jan.

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Thanks to all of the group.
Great company and a great time.
Looking forward to doing it again.

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Thanks Sara but I think you should have put a spoiler alert on your attachment. Even after watching only the first episode I had similar concerns that complex issues were being over simplified.
For those who haven’t yet watched episode 1 it’s on again tonight at 9pm on Viceland.

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When I first started being out as my real self 6 years ago, the small number of people that reacted with shock or surprise (I only had one nasty reaction that I recall) were massively out numbered by those who didn’t give a fig. Now I can only remember friendly comments, smiles and co-operation over the last 12 months. On the broader public front marriage equality was a huge reality check for the forces of reaction. They seem to have switched from attacking LGBTI to defending themselves from the progressives or keeping their heads down .
The poor dears now worry about their religious freedoms rather than attacking our rights.
I see nothing but good news coming our way not an increase in intolerance quite the opposite.

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Where your thoughts go, energy flows.
In other words if your think about intolerance you give your limited energy away to intolerance.
Conversely if you think about tolerance/acceptance you give your energy away to it. Which one will your energy serve better?
With love and respect