Transexuals

[FebruaryOfReason]

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If this is a mental disorder, then why do we allow the patients to run the asylum? Why do we have mentally compromised people trying to set a national policy that allows them to indulge their disorder?

Um, because there is a treatment for gender identity disorder?

would we allow people afflicted with Munchhausen access to their kids? Or if you want to look at other people who just hurt themselves, would we allow people who want to cut themselves places they could do so?

Once they got better, yes. Like, if they were successfully treated, y'know?

You are assuming your analogy holds for all relevant aspects of the situation, but it doesn't necessarily follow that because people have a problem in one area, they are therefore unsuitable for all other areas that you would like them to be unsuitable for.

I suppose that's what happens when you base your philosophy on adages.