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Originally Posted by Nage Waza
Maybe I missed something, but I read your accusations and somehow missed the hatred in this thread. If I skimmed past it, show me. Otherwise I did not see it, and instead saw you doing the hating.
I don't care what someone does sexually and also insist on rights of minorities. I am concerned when I see that there are people that think a sex change is equal to a life saving liver transplant. I also am shocked that if I compare a sex change to a nose job then I am a bigot. In both situations the physical body is causing emotional problems for the person.
And I am fairly sure those that think this murderer should go without the surgery are aware there are bleeding hearts out there that put the surgery on the same level as a liver transplant and for that we are peeved.
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But one, the medical communities in the United States, Canada, and the UK (and many others) have decided, is medically necessary (in most cases) and one is not.
So you must admit that there is obviously a difference to these 2 things, perhaps one that you don't understand, and that's fine. I don't understand why most medical treatments work, because I am not a doctor and the last schooling I had on anything related to biology was in Grade 9. That's why we have experts on things.
I don't go to a the AMA website when I want to learn about financial investments, just like I don't go to APEGA when I want to find out about the long term effects of smoking on an unborn fetus.
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Standards of Care (or variations of it) is the best option we have for treatment of these things, and it includes, after a strict diagnostic procedure, that surgery is an option in some cases. The standards are so strict that many transgendered people complain that is is so hard to get the surgery done. That is because it is designed to keep unfit candidates from slipping through the cracks - although like any medical procedure, I am sure you can find examples where people screwed up a diagnosis.