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Gender dysphoria is an actual terminal illness depending on the person. Many people end up dead because of it. My ability, desire, or whatever to eat diminished

Gender dysphoria is an actual terminal illness depending on the person. Many people end up dead because of it. My ability, desire, or whatever to eat diminished years ago because of it and my health continues to get poor with also lack of sleep. Similar to other illnesses where the body shuts down in the functions of having good health. I've been seeing several doctors for several years and continue to do so with trying to voice my right for euthanasia the past several months. Currently people take a diagnosis and have their opinion glazed over by success stories of people fitting the diagnosis. It's sad when people then refuse to acknowledge the ones who have a different reality with the same diagnosis. I think this happens a lot in the medical community.

sokoloff 8y ago
> Gender dysphoria is an actual terminal illness depending on the person. Many people end up dead because of it. That doesn't seem to me to be a reasonable standard for medically-indicated euthanasia. Influenza meets that test more strongly. I do wish you the best in your future path, however long that may be.
- intralizee 8y ago
  To you what would make Gender Dysphoria a candidate for Euthanasia? The illness you listed is the same to some with Gender Dysphoria. I’ve known people with my illness who have committed suicide and they all communicated it’s like living in hell and feeling robbed of life. I think it comes down to your own perception being discriminatory based on your own personal opinion with disregarding pain not experienced of a certain life with an illness that people can’t imagine because it’s psychological.
  - sokoloff 8y ago
    My personal inclination is that anyone of sound enough mind to carefully consider the topic ought to be able to opt for physician-assisted suicide after a short waiting/consulting period as an essential element of agency over their own life. That's beside the point in that the current medical practice and legal environment doesn't support that position broadly, so with respect to medical indication, the fact that some people die from a given condition does not seem to be a workable threshold for supporting euthanasia as a treatment.
    - intralizee 8y ago
      Some people don't die from an illness that is considered a terminal illness and which receives euthanasia in the current medical practice. I can think of a few people who have survived certain types of cancer. Also it really depends on where a person is located right now. I could obtain euthanasia if I were to fly to Switzerland. I haven't considered doing that just yet and I don't necessarily find it the same as receiving the treatment in my birth country. There has already been a case where a person suffering Gender Dysphoria received euthanasia (not my country) and someone obtained euthanasia from traumatic rape throughout childhood (again not my country).

sokoloff 8y ago

> Gender dysphoria is an actual terminal illness depending on the person. Many people end up dead because of it. That doesn't seem to me to be a reasonable standard for medically-indicated euthanasia. Influenza meets that test more strongly. I do wish you the best in your future path, however long that may be.

intralizee 8y ago
To you what would make Gender Dysphoria a candidate for Euthanasia? The illness you listed is the same to some with Gender Dysphoria. I’ve known people with my illness who have committed suicide and they all communicated it’s like living in hell and feeling robbed of life. I think it comes down to your own perception being discriminatory based on your own personal opinion with disregarding pain not experienced of a certain life with an illness that people can’t imagine because it’s psychological.
- sokoloff 8y ago
  My personal inclination is that anyone of sound enough mind to carefully consider the topic ought to be able to opt for physician-assisted suicide after a short waiting/consulting period as an essential element of agency over their own life. That's beside the point in that the current medical practice and legal environment doesn't support that position broadly, so with respect to medical indication, the fact that some people die from a given condition does not seem to be a workable threshold for supporting euthanasia as a treatment.
  - intralizee 8y ago
    Some people don't die from an illness that is considered a terminal illness and which receives euthanasia in the current medical practice. I can think of a few people who have survived certain types of cancer. Also it really depends on where a person is located right now. I could obtain euthanasia if I were to fly to Switzerland. I haven't considered doing that just yet and I don't necessarily find it the same as receiving the treatment in my birth country. There has already been a case where a person suffering Gender Dysphoria received euthanasia (not my country) and someone obtained euthanasia from traumatic rape throughout childhood (again not my country).