Trans surgeries postponed indefinitely amid coronavirus pandemic

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For as long as he can remember, Jaceon Cornado has dreamed of having a flat chest.

When he turned 18 in the spring of 2017, the transgender teen eagerly started planning his surgical transition.

”This surgery is something I need to continue to get up in the mornings every day,” Cornado told NBC News.

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As the coronavirus pandemic has insidiously crept its way around the globe over the past several months, the daily lives of people from Beijing to Berlin to Boston have been upended. And with hospitals scrambling to deal with the influx of COVID-19 patients, surgeries deemed “nonessential” or “elective” have been canceled or postponed indefinitely. Among those surgeries put on the back burner are gender-affirming procedures, which can be lifesaving for transgender people.

Some trans individuals who have had their surgeries canceled or postponed, like Cornado, say they are now facing debilitating levels of gender dysphoria on top of the anxiety and uncertainty spawned by the global health crisis.

“This surgery is not elective for me,” Cornado said. “It’s something that I need to continue to get up in the morning and live a normal life.”

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It not being elective and is a necessity to continue living in the body you were born with, and a doctor carving you up is what you need in order to continue to get up in the morning? Somebody tell me how this isn’t a mental illness.

Anyways, thank you Corona Chan.