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Alice's avatar

Of course they don’t include stories of the regret often occurring in their 20s when they realize the irreversible harm they have caused. What kind of relationship can a child have with a parent that allowed or encouraged this insanity.

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Duct Tape's avatar

About those future relationship issues. Woody Allen once wrote about an entirely different topic: “… recriminations and gunfire …)

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Crixcyon's avatar

You simply are NOT a doctor is you are performing these horrid alterations. The medical community should have refused this stuff decades ago but no, a dollar doing the devil's work is still a dollar and I hope it spends well in Hell.

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Duct Tape's avatar

There are evil people in all professions. Medicine is no different. Josef Mengele's title was Doctor. I think there are doctors that WANT to perform these mutilations. I've met my share of medical professionals with agendas that are less than optimal or beneficial to the patient. So much so that it takes me a while to develop trust with medical providers. Even if a relationship develops, I still take a while to consider any advice I've been given. I have no trouble seeking other opinions and/or ignoring what I consider less than sound advice.

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Kathleen Taylor's avatar

I agree that “there are doctors that WANT to perform these mutilations,” as you suggest. I believe they are motivated by the planning, performing, and the memory of their performing the surgery, being sexually arousing to them. Many of these butchering doctors are homosexual or “trans” themselves.

The entire concept of a sex change operation is revolting to human sensibility and criminal in nature, in my view.

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Duct Tape's avatar

The delusional can’t be reckoned into sense. The case you cited involves mutually exclusive factors. This individual wants to be surgically altered to resemble the male anatomy but wants to retain the ability to conceive and bear a child. My guess is that this will not turn out well. Not to mention the constant mental gymnastics that will be required to function. It will be as exhausting as being a Nihilist. Of course, it will all be someone else’s fault. Not the individual, consenting parents, or mutilating doctors. People that would do this to our children want us dead.

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Kathleen Taylor's avatar

Of course, the mutilated woman may be able to pay a surrogate to bear her future child but, after hysterectomy and (a decade or so of) male hormone intake, she will not be capable of "bearing" a child herself.

These delusional people do not comprehend that some decisions are irreversible.

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Vinnie's avatar

Of course! There is a name for Immaturity: CHILDHOOD.

Parents' job is to protect from

such things....

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James Kehoe's avatar

Children's Hospitals sound so saintly. Kind of like, Catholic Charities. Rip the canvas away and what do you have--- a nasty corrupt (evil) mess.

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Jean Pierre LaRocque's avatar

The should be banned and criminalized

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Joe's avatar

There are certain occupants of society who refuse to be bound by any rules or social norms other than their own.

Normal society calls those occupants law breakers.

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BetterOffRed's avatar

Dearest Doc,

"Make this make sense."

Impossible.

Make doesn't equal compel.

Make doesn't equal create.

Make is a corrupted word, used casually now: a colloquialism as empty as, "It is what it is" with a shrug, or even a red hat.

I cry and rage simultaneously.

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