(April 20, 2016 at 10:24 am)Esquilax Wrote:OK, what do you make of this? A review of a hundred studies gives gender reassignment surgery the thumbs down,(April 19, 2016 at 10:00 pm)AJW333 Wrote: The report doesn't say the exact opposite to what I am claiming. All I said was that the suicide rate in transsexuals was high and as a therapy, should be seriously questioned given the alarming suicide rate in post transitioned individuals. To simply blame the Christians is hopelessly flawed since a huge amount of grief is coming from non-religious people.
Yes, you were saying that the suicide rate was high, and that we should question transitioning as a therapy given this... while quoting from a study that links an inability to transition with a rise in the suicide rate. The claim that you made, is directly opposite to the conclusions in the report. Directly. Opposite.
Did you even read the report? Did you even read my post that you're quoting there? Because you just repeated the same faulty assertion as though I hadn't explicitly shown that that same assertion is the opposite of what was in the report.
How did you think you were going to get away with that?
"There is no conclusive evidence that sex change operations improve the lives of transsexuals, with many people remaining severely distressed and even suicidal after the operation, according to a medical review conducted exclusively for Guardian Weekend tomorrow.
The review of more than 100 international medical studies of post-operative transsexuals by the University of Birmingham's aggressive research intelligence facility (Arif) found no robust scientific evidence that gender reassignment surgery is clinically effective. " http://www.theguardian.com/society/2004/...ntalhealth
