When we see Dillon questioning himself (I don't know what pronoun is supposed to come out of the machine at this point) with “what had gone wrong with her” and asking what would make her “seen as a person
again,” I felt a little sadness. I want to hug her and say "nothing 'went wrong with you', it's okay.” The part where it says "even the military wouldn't have her” because she “was deemed too
mannish” to sleep with the ladies in their dorms was a tick. Are you kidding? As long as you don’t have a
penis, how would you be too mannish? Even then, trans women I can understand
would probably be excluded, but that was unnecessary. What deems as too mannish for a born woman to be in the women's place. Regardless of if it was something Laura wanted to not, I find it rude to say "hey, you're too manly, so get away from the ladies. You don't belong."
Anyway, so far from the reading, since I’m so far damn behind, I’m pretty sure that this was the reading about the person who would try
testosterone no matter that the effects were because he wanted to live as a
man so badly. (Now that I finished reading it and am just pasting this over, I know this is true.)
Now, onto that psychiatrist being a fucking asshole. How the hell did you get your medical credentials if you couldn't understand the basic "confidentiality" part? Maybe it wasn't an established part of medicine then and I'm just a spoiled child of this generation, but breaking codes about confidentiality shit is completely against my tolerance. It is not a code to break; how dare he. Fuck the medical profession
back then. People like him are screwed up and I hope they lose their jobs, or lost them, when word of stuff like this got out. I'm not a huge justice-freak, but I do believe in the ethics and morality of mankind. It's a crappy time and place to have these standards, huh? Onto the next part...
>Magical monkey-ball surgery?Oh, man, load me up with some chimpanzee or goat balls.
Sounds great. Oh. Wait
Infections. Right. How about no.<
I’m glad Michael could get things done happily out of the
shop, but annoyed again at how people treated him like a laughing stock in it.
It’s pointless in even explaining how stupid that is to me and to anyone on the negative end.
I’m glad that he was a good person though; rather than living an
outcast, he would rather die a hero. I like that attitude to some extent (without the pessimistic attempt at optimism aspect). Even if he died a hero, it would only be until some controversy arose from what was under his pants- unless the body was that malformed. Good thing it was never a problem.
Gilbert was good for Michael and it was a pleasant read
seeing their relationship. He was a good kid. I’m glad that he stood up for and
cared for Michael in a way that no one else would. The tin hat part made me smile because they both had a reason to live, at least a little more, for someone else. It gave Michael a little bit of someone to live to protect perhaps. I was hoping it would turn out a little bit like a movie and Michael would find Gilbert after the war and they could be buddies, but this isn't Hollywood and I don't know what happens outside of the scanned pages.
When the document has a section talking about how surgery and hormones should be
given if it makes someone happy, I thought of the promise for a "pursuit of
happiness" in our American dream and how subjective it really is. I like the doctor's attitude for making the patient happy and I don't see it as catering to selfish wants and needs as much as the other doctors were. The charging anything he wanted was a little bit skewed, but that's what any doctor would do in the day, sadly.
I found the statement "Gillies made happiness a reason for surgery- which in turn upended the
traditional relationship between doctor and patient. The doctor could no longer
pretend to know what was best; he would have to listen to the patient to find
out” to be something interesting in regards to the paper I'm writing for you. Make the patient happy if you can. They deserve their pursuit of happiness just as much, if not more (but really more) than the woman who's getting bigger boobies. They need it, rather than want it (which is debatable in society, but we know where I stand on that front.) The last chapter entirely actually, was interesting to me, considering my possible current plans for the future : plastic surgery.
Overall, I enjoyed reading this and I wish I did it sooner. Normally readings that long are dreadful to read, but then again it's not 11-2am.
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