(April 26, 2015 at 10:45 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: To my mind, it seems pretty extreme and should be unnecessary to take very profound drugs and major surgeries just to fit in with societies expectations. I would think the better approach, personally and as a society, is to work towards a culture that treats biological sex the same way it does height or shoe size. And the way it should, but doesn't yet, treat skin color.
Ok, listen, this has nothing to do with society and how it perceives gender roles, it has nothing to do with denial, it has nothing to do with wanting to do activities perceived to be of the opposite sex, it has nothing to do with whims or phases
This is an actual, diagnosed psychiatric conditions and it's about feeling with every fibre of your body that you are meant to be someone else and it's visible from such an early age as three years old
Show me a case of a transgendered person changing their mind and not their body and living happily with it
And for the hundredth time, in this case no one is talking about surgery yet, just delaying puberty to help the child make a more informed decision
And about the ill effects, don't you think the drugs were prescribed by a doctor? You know, one of the people who know their shit?
There are opinions and then there are informed opinions, Chad