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Originally Posted by Rathji
Just out of curiosity, is your assertion that the medical community decided way back in early part of the 20th century, when sex change operations first started, that these people were women trapped in men's bodies and not a single lick of research has been done in the field since then?
If not, then why do you refuse to admit that, right now, this is the form of treatment that is best suited to help the most people, even if it is not 100% perfect. It is the result of about 100 years of medical research. Do you rag on cancer treatment strategies? My dad's cancer treatment killed him faster than it could have possibly saved him, and he isn't alone in that experience. Should we just stop treating some types of cancer?
I get that they have to undergo a difficult surgery, I get that they need hormones, I get that they are almost certainly going into a situation where society at large will view them as a misfit, but who gets to decide if that is better or worse than hating yourself every day?
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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.