They stopped it because their former Psychiatrist in Chief is relying on a long term study that seems to show that surgery produces more satisfied transgender individuals but doesn't necessarily produce happier individuals. The study showed that 10 years after surgery, a lot of transgendered individuals will have continued, increasing mental issues.
The hospital chose to stop performing the surgeries because of the opinion of their Chief Psychologist. The guy clearly recognizes gender dysmorphia, so your point is moot. His opinion is that the surgery doesn't always have the desired long term effect, which may be the case.
I, for one thing, think the results of the survey are on point for the sample space. It was done over a 30 year span from 1981-2011 in Sweden. Long term, even being a post-operative transgender individual, it has not been easy in society. The study makes the assertion that sex reassignment surgery does alleviate the gender dysphoria, but has other consequences.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21364939
So, Chad, this doesn't make the point that you want it to, sorry. You just found a headline, didn't read anything about it, and appealed to an authority. An authority for which you have no idea what they actually said. The study fails to study non-reassigned transgender patients long term. So it fails to really have a proper baseline for what not doing reassignment does to a transgender individual long term.
Incidentally, this is what Johns Hopkins has to say about transgender issues:
http://web.jhu.edu/LGBTQ/transintro.html
Do you ever get tired of shitposting and getting called out on it?
The hospital chose to stop performing the surgeries because of the opinion of their Chief Psychologist. The guy clearly recognizes gender dysmorphia, so your point is moot. His opinion is that the surgery doesn't always have the desired long term effect, which may be the case.
I, for one thing, think the results of the survey are on point for the sample space. It was done over a 30 year span from 1981-2011 in Sweden. Long term, even being a post-operative transgender individual, it has not been easy in society. The study makes the assertion that sex reassignment surgery does alleviate the gender dysphoria, but has other consequences.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21364939
So, Chad, this doesn't make the point that you want it to, sorry. You just found a headline, didn't read anything about it, and appealed to an authority. An authority for which you have no idea what they actually said. The study fails to study non-reassigned transgender patients long term. So it fails to really have a proper baseline for what not doing reassignment does to a transgender individual long term.
Incidentally, this is what Johns Hopkins has to say about transgender issues:
http://web.jhu.edu/LGBTQ/transintro.html
Do you ever get tired of shitposting and getting called out on it?
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