The original piece is about the difficulty the person faced getting public funding for gender reassignment surgery in Canada. The comment section is filled with posters outraged that many Canadians can’t even get prescription glasses or dental care, much less elective surgery.
He grew up in Riverview, N.B., where, as he put it in an interview, “there weren’t even gay people there.”
“Really, what was I going to do? I always wanted to be a boy. You can see pictures that my family took of me from the age of three until forever. They’re all, like, building forts in the backyard or playing Dukes of Hazzard or playing with Transformers. Not typical feminine or female things. I never went for that. I never was interested – at all.”
As one Reddit commenter said:
“If you don’t like wearing pink dresses and quietly baking sugar cookies in your pink Easy Bake Oven while the boys build forts and play in the mud you must not really be female! It’s okay, though, we’ll cut off your breasts and give you these hormone treatments that will significantly shorten your lifespan. Then you’ll be free to do all those inherently male things. This is very progressive!”
