Someone asked me once recently if "Well, would you support letting someone cut off their arms and attach wings if they felt they should have been born a jet plane"
Today they don't cut it off, they 'reshape it'. That way you're not losing all those nerve endings.
He can do what he wants with his weiner. I suspect it won't matter for long given his other issues and the abnormally high post-conversion suicide rate.
The issue is... complicated. The best I can say is that it appears more than the surgury(and hormones and such) don't resolve the increased tendency such people have towards suicide anyways.
Gender Identity Disorder / Gender dysmorphia / whatever the current PC term is, is a mental disorder. Period.
The way I look at it today is that we have a mismatch - and the 'fix' is to make them match. Consider this analogy: We have blue/pink cases, and CPUs that 'prefer' to be in one or the other, hard coded in the CPU.
Which is simpler, changing the CPU, or changing out the case? While changing the CPU is theoretically a much smaller change, it's also one that we don't know how to do - nor do we have the tools to do so even if we did. In comparison, while swapping the case is a much bigger exterior change, it's actually easier than trying to fiddle with the internals of the CPU.
Same with humans - gender reassignment surgury is, on average, a much 'lesser' surgury than trying to muck around with the brain.
because NORMAL implies they don't need care, and their suicide rates are high enough already.
You make a good point, but part of the problem is that insisting they're actually a boy/girl isn't that helpful. I've seen some of the results of when doctors and surgeons decided that the sex of newborns was 'plastic' and made the choice to assign a sex to babies born with damaged/malformed genitals, normally making them female because that was easier surgically.
Fast forward to the child reaching teenager years and insisting that they were a boy despite surguries to convert them to female, female hormones, etc... Lawsuits went around all over the place.
Today's procedure in such cases is often to wait a bit and do a 'behaviorial analysis'. They can figure, quite successfully most of the time, whether the 'natural' state of the child is male or female. No definitive results? Repeat the tests in 6 months or so. Once you have a definitive result, THEN you can schedule the surguries and start hormone treatment.
Male chromosomes? born with male genitalia? He is a male.
Just curious, but what do you consider a XY person with
complete androgen insensitivity?
