Transexuals

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The only proven effective treatment for transgendered is to let them transition...It is not ideology. It is practice and experience.

Transitioning may remove the feelings of gender-dysphoria. Sex reassignment is still not effective at reducing the suicide rates or other psychological problems, like substance abuse, of trans-gendered people. There are deeper issues at play.

Utterly wrong.

Transitioning successfully allows a transsexual to be happier in themselves and to function normally in society. As a consequence suicide rates decrease. That doesn't mean to say that suicide reaches zero because of bigotry in society. But suicide is not zero for any segment of society.

The international standard of psychiatric care for transsexuals determines whether a patient is likely to self harm or is at risk of suicide and if they are then they will treat those problems first.

For those who wonder why physical integrity should be prioritized, it is because subjective mental states are more malleable than objective biological states. People can have profound changes in their mental state, including their sense of self, without the use of advanced technology.

Also wrong.

There are mental states that are much harder to shift than your physical states. Problems from childhood abuse or phobias gained from childhood for example are more likely to stay with you your entire life. The fact that as humans we have inbuilt instincts and moral feelings demonstrate that there are certain mental states that cannot be changed.