sycasey said:
GBear4Life said:
Going out on a limb, but their suicide rates, particularly trans which to my understanding is the highest of any group in America, is *probably* because they're depressed. With trans, they were born with a disorder, and culture's and even medicine's proclaiming the answer is pretending to be the opposite sex through harmones and reconstruction surgery, and ensuring them safe spaces.
It doesn't work. The illness/disorder, centered around depression from not being comfortable in one's own skin and body, is what needs to be treated.
So to your mind, a sex change does not qualify as treatment?
I think the suicide rate post-operation being virtually identical pre-operation effectively demonstrates that it at least certainly isn't appropriate treatment a considerable percentage of the time.
Sex-change reversal operations
are on the rise, and hormone treatment is being given to children with parent permission. That should be malpractice, IMO. I think it's odd that people will judge and sometimes mock cosmetic surgeries like breast implants and, say, someone like Michael Jackson surgically transforming himself into a caucasian, as being inherently unhealthy, self-involved and deluded. But sex-transformation? That's just sensible decision in one's own rational self-interest.
The patient believes mutilating one's self to align mind/body will solve the problem, when in fact the reality of the depression from still knowing it's not "real", so to speak, still hasn't been solved.
I think treatment to help the patient's depression in order to feel comfortable, safe, healthy and confident in a world where they are a very small percentage of the population that was born with gender dysphoria, a mind/body disequilibrium is crucial. No clinician or MD would recommend to a depressed patient, whose depression centers around feeling physically unattractive, to get cosmetic surgery to look less ugly.