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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
The procedures though patently don't work in the overall sense, yes if we give a person the body they think they should have they no longer are able to fixate on that as a problem but it appears clear that in a large number of transexuals that isn't really the problem or the cure.
I would also argue that it is almost impossible to accurately survey how happy transexuals are after their gender modification and your link states that follow up studies are thin to non existant anyway. These patients have gone through hell and back to get the treatment, my guess would be a large number of them, having been so adament, even in their own mind, that this is what will fix all their issues, are going to be loathe to sit down in a follow up interview and say they were wrong.
If we allowed anorexics the medical support in order to safely starve themselves down to belsen like levels they would also no longer think they were too fat but it doesn't make that an appropriate treatment any more than giving an addict an easy supply of drugs or alcohol is a 'treatment' for addiction.
But again what really worries me about this is that the medical community does not approach gender dysmorphia as a psychological condition that needs to be cured, they approach the idea that a man could be a woman trapped inside a mans body as fact and without question, unlike any other dysmorphic thought process.
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Your arrogance that you'd assume to know about the trans condition is telling. You probably should try to speculate on others personal experiences.
Your attachment to the body aspect of trans people is telling. Trans people literally experience life as the opposite sex of their bodies. They have looked at trans brains and they more generally reflect the brains of the gender they say they are as opposed to their genitalia. What's most important for trans people is to get treated as the gender they are, and be able to interact with people as the gender they are. Hormone treatment are as much needed for the mental changes as the physical changes. They've been shown to reduce anxiety and depression in trans people.
Most trans live life actively opposed to their trans condition. Nobody wants to be trans. Most do everything in their power to change it. It's something you cannot control. Like anything else intrinsic to humans, it comes up no matter what the trans person does. Their gender is an instrinc part of their identity.
I like the idea that you can't ask trans people how they feel about gender dysphoria treatments because they'd be biased. Your unwillingness to let trans people explain themselves is telling in how you view them.
To compare it to body dysmorphia is stupid, stupid, stupid. Stop doing it. I will repeat that gender dysphoria is only partly about having the wrong body, there are many other aspects that also deeply negatively affect trans people.
Please just start listening to trans people. You do not know better than they do.