Transexuals

[I_am_not_mafia]

The difficulty is in determining who is transsexual and who isn't. If you truly are a transsexual then the only effective treatment is to transition. Absolutely everything else has been tried. And believe me, the medical establishment did try. They have historically been extremely hostile to transsexuals.

That's not true according to the study i posted a few pages back. "distress" is alleviated when the patient is comfortable with whatever sexual assignment he or she wishes to obtain. For some that means varying degrees of gender reassignment while other seek to be comfortable in their own bodies.

Or are you saying all GID people should be forced to under go gender reassignment even if the want to learn to live how they were born?

Transsexuals are the ones requesting gender reassignment.

The problem is that you are equivocating between patients and transsexuals and it can be difficult for the psychiatrist and the patient to determine what they are. This thread subject is "Transsexual", not transgendered. Transsexual is a misnomer because it is not about sexuality, but it has stuck and is gradually being replaced with the more umbrella term transgendered. But transgendered includes the whole spectrum whereas transsexuals by definition wish to change their bodies to match the gender that they identify as. And for those people. transitioning is the only effective treatment.