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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
Actually when the medical profession first started sexual reasignment surgery it came at a time when nothing was really know of body dysmorphia, anorexia and the like were yet to really be studied and the psychological profession was frankly really sure that the brain was the main arbitrar of identity, that the body wasn't really important, in fact there was a case of a canadian boy who's penis was severed in a badly botched circumsicion who was studied for years by (I think) the U of Minnisota) the professor published paper after paper claiming that the lad was happily growing up as a girl, except he wasn't in fact he was so drawn to being a boy that in the end in his teens his parents broke down and told him, it ended tragically with him killing himself in his late twenties, to be frank alot of the early claims for gender reassignment came out of this case and it has been utterly disproven since then.
What I worry about or wonder about is what if the whole basis for gender reassignement is false and hopelessly biased by LGBT politics, that in fact it is a treatable psychological disorder, that with the appropriate medication and therapy all of these people (or most all of them) could be allowed to be happy with who they are.
If some drug company came up with a pill that would 'cure' every person that felt like they needed a sex change there would be an outcry, it would be decried as a facist plot to get rid of a viable community, there would be protests outside the offices by pink triangled wearing activists because transgender has become a community and not a medical condition, because of this there is only one direction we are persuing, which is to cut parts of peoples bodies in order to make them feel good, if it was any thing other than transgender, leg amputations, cutting, anorexia we would rightfully call it a psychological condition and try and cure it, but in this one case we have decided it is fine.
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Thank you for explaining your position.
I have read the papers you mention about the child who was given an unneeded sex change operation. That case proves many points, including the fact that if someone is forced to live as a gender other than what they actually are, it will negatively impact the child (to the point of suicidal thoughts). That simply leads further support to the idea that people who do feel this way need to have something done about it.
I do agree with the bolded part though, the community is firmly entrenched on many isssues (not just the correct form of treatment) and that will obviously cause political pressure in some areas. However, that doesn't change the reality that this is the best option for these people at this time.