Are gender outlaws considered the new biological terrorists seeking weapons of mass bodily destruction? OPERATION INVERT compares the different regulations mediating botox-related plastic surgery and gender re-assignment “sex change.” Historical medical assessments of the invert (homosexual and transsexual) “condition” reveal seemingly outdated absurdities about outsider deviance. Nonetheless, current institutional loopholes governing gender re-assignment surgery suggest a fresh resurgence of loony pathology and diagnosis.
Around the same time that I got top surgery-a double mastectomy with nipple graphs-the United States waged “war on terror”, and the FDA approved the use of botox, a classified “weapon of mass destruction”, as a cosmetic drug. To obtain my surgery I needed a letter from my therapist. Yet a consumer can arrange a house party, fashioned after the Tupperware party, where the doctor visits you to administer botox injections. I thought the double standard was clear. You can use cosmetic surgery to heighten your gender and reduce signs of aging by injecting a toxic poison in your face, but if you decide to use cosmetic surgery to confuse compulsory gender your sanity must be ascertained.
