Transexuals

[paulpablo]

Ok but can I just show you this article I found.  I don't know how valid it is but I think it's from a fairly reputable source and I'm sure there are counter opinions to the articles conclusions.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2...ale-brain/

Additionally, I don't really see the difference in the conclusion of what the person is going through.  Yeh a woman can't give birth to a fox.  Agreed.  But both people experiencing distress from feeling they are in the wrong body because of something happening within the brain.

This is from the article.
“There are not two types of brain”
When the group looked at each individual brain scan, however, they found that very few people had all of the brain features they might be expected to have, based on their sex. Across the sample, between 0 and 8 per cent of people had “all-male” or “all-female” brains, depending on the definition. “Most people are in the middle,” says Joel.

Scans prove there’s no such thing as a ‘male’ or ‘female’ brain

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article...ne.0110830

This is difficult to wade through because it's long and rather boring. Also because it's adds a shit load of blog and media opinions vs scientific study. It annoyingly doesn't allow for copypasta, but I (possibly illegally??) took a screen shot.

From what I gathered men and women have the same brains that work in different ways.

It's a very controversial subject.

Still, even if you say men and women have no significant brain difference. It is possible for human beings to be men, women, both, or something in between. It's never possible for a human being to be a fox. No amount of species reassignment surgery will make a woman into a fox. It'd always still be fake and seems like it then wouldn't help the dysphoria anymore than sewing on a dildo would help a transman (which is probably none but that's just my opinion).


On a side note, do you think we should also deny surgery for people with Rokitansky syndrome, men with bladder exstophy, what about people who naturally have a female body (including breasts) but a penis instead of a vagina, men who are born with a penis that is divided and looks like a labia, women with abnormally large clitoris and no vaginal opening?

Well it may not be a fox they want to turn into, it could be a different ape other than human.  Plus their feelings may be different to yours on the surgery they want, they maybe really helped by a slight change in their ear shape or nasal surgery in order to look like a different species.

Also I don't think we should deny surgery for anyone except in some exceptional ethical circumstances.