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I'd consider gender reassignment surgery to be less elective, less expensive and less risky. There is a condition called gender dysphoria, and for a lot of pati
by bayesian_horse 9y ago
I'd consider gender reassignment surgery to be less elective, less expensive and less risky. There is a condition called gender dysphoria, and for a lot of patients hormones and living their gender identity doesn't alleviate it. I'm "cis", so I can't fully understand the situation transgender people are in, but I would hope that we can get to a point where genitalia matter less for gender identity. Easier said than done, probably.
It also depends on how much of your sense of self worth or identity is entangled with your sexual "functioning". I believe I wouldn't opt for such a surgery. Of course, I'm not in this terrible situation. And I can imagine other people having enough of a problem with these parts missing.
Speaking just about the costs, intensive psychiatric and therapeutic care should be more cost effective, and it's necessary in most cases, anyway.
- hood_syntax 9y ago> self worth or identity Wow, that's rich. Is it really beyond your comprehension that someone might be deeply hurt by losing the capability to engage in sexual relations with their significant other? I know you say you 'can imagine other people having enough of a problem' but I'm not sure you really do when you word it that way. I agree that it's more expensive and more risky than gender reassignment but I don't understand why someone trying to return to a fully functioning body is considered "elective".
- bayesian_horse 9y agoFrom the emotion in your response I gather you interpreted my words to be derogatory. Far from it, I see self worth and identity as important, and I don't want to judge those who involve their sexual functioning or their appearance in their sense of self worth. I certainly do, to some extent... I just think (or hope) my sense of self worth would survive without it.