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transAs some of you may or may not know, my doctors have recently advised me to speak to them about being put on a waiting list for a full heart transplant. Whilst this has been on the cards for a while and will probably put me on stupidly long queue of doom, I'm wondering whether this will affect my transition.
I have yet to tell a single person of official medical persuasion about my gender identity troubles and I'm wondering if it would be best kept in the dark. Let me run it by you:
Transition ASAP, deal with heart later.
Pros: Hormones take more effect when younger. Will make me feel a lot better a lot sooner. Chance to be a young woman before I'm an old lady.
Cons: Hormones can screw with the medication my knakcered heart requires to keep pumping right (warfarin). If at some point I'm up against a non TG individual for an available heart, I'll be seen as a grater risk and skipped over. Breasts might get in the way of open heart surgery.
Wait until all this life threatening heart business is finished, then think about transition.
Pros: I'll be transitioning on a healthy heart, which must be good in some way. My transition won't affect my transplant.
Cons: It could be effing years and I don't want to wait that long for a multitude of reasons. I might be denied SRS if I'm on immuno supressants for the rest of my life. If for whatever reason the docs screw up my heart surgery, I may die male and never get anywhere.
So what do y'all think? Frankly It's boggling my brain. The basic argument seems to be that there's a dangerous route and a safe route but the safe route might end with a tombstone with a guys name on it over my grave, either in the long or short term. Surely I cant be the only transsexual out there with a congenital heart disease?
I have yet to tell a single person of official medical persuasion about my gender identity troubles and I'm wondering if it would be best kept in the dark. Let me run it by you:
Transition ASAP, deal with heart later.
Pros: Hormones take more effect when younger. Will make me feel a lot better a lot sooner. Chance to be a young woman before I'm an old lady.
Cons: Hormones can screw with the medication my knakcered heart requires to keep pumping right (warfarin). If at some point I'm up against a non TG individual for an available heart, I'll be seen as a grater risk and skipped over. Breasts might get in the way of open heart surgery.
Wait until all this life threatening heart business is finished, then think about transition.
Pros: I'll be transitioning on a healthy heart, which must be good in some way. My transition won't affect my transplant.
Cons: It could be effing years and I don't want to wait that long for a multitude of reasons. I might be denied SRS if I'm on immuno supressants for the rest of my life. If for whatever reason the docs screw up my heart surgery, I may die male and never get anywhere.
So what do y'all think? Frankly It's boggling my brain. The basic argument seems to be that there's a dangerous route and a safe route but the safe route might end with a tombstone with a guys name on it over my grave, either in the long or short term. Surely I cant be the only transsexual out there with a congenital heart disease?