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Option 2 sounds like attack of the body snatchers. Whoever would be left in that body wouldn't be the same person who went into the procedure.
by delecti 5y ago
Option 2 sounds like attack of the body snatchers. Whoever would be left in that body wouldn't be the same person who went into the procedure.
- jhgb 5y agoI can assure you that if some kind of brain treatment could remove my mental problems I'd jump on it. Making an unhappy person into a different one seems to be exactly the point.
- delecti 5y agoMaking a transgender person into a cisgender person is a bit different, though I wouldn't remove any of my mental problems either, so maybe it's a philosophical disagreement.
- jhgb 5y agoI'm not quite sure that's what you'd need to do; perhaps removing dysphoria would be enough.
- delecti 5y agoThe goal of transition is to reduce the things that otherwise make you uncomfortable, and that discomfort is called dysphoria. So having dysphoria and being transgender are more or less synonymous.
- jhgb 5y agoFrom what I understood, clinical dysphoria is not always present in transgendered individuals.