Tellenbach
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The Transgender Con? Many “Transgender†People Regret Switch
I'm all for self-discovery and finding happiness, but what if these transgendered individuals have been mind-screwed by the psychiatric profession and it's just a phase they're going through. I support efforts, even surgical ones, to remedy psychological trauma, but the evidence suggests that surgery doesn't help many if not most of them. Are these people aware that others who have this surgery aren't helped by it and have they been counseled before getting the surgery?
Transsexualism was invented by psychiatrists.… You fundamentally can’t change sex.... The surgery doesn’t alter you genetically. It’s genital mutilation. My "vagina" was just the bag of my scrotum. It’s like a pouch, like a kangaroo. What’s scary is you still feel like you have a penis when you’re sexually aroused. It’s like phantom limb syndrome. It’s all been a terrible misadventure. I’ve never been a woman, just Alan.
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.
Cloete says that Ryland’s parents “learnt about a higher suicide/suicide attempt rate among transgender people†and don’t want to lose their child, indicating they’re unaware that “the suicide rate among transgendered people who had reassignment surgery is 20 times higher than the suicide rate among non-transgender people,†as CNS News reported in August. They also are unlikely to know that 70 to 80 percent of children with their daughter’s feelings spontaneously lose them.
I'm all for self-discovery and finding happiness, but what if these transgendered individuals have been mind-screwed by the psychiatric profession and it's just a phase they're going through. I support efforts, even surgical ones, to remedy psychological trauma, but the evidence suggests that surgery doesn't help many if not most of them. Are these people aware that others who have this surgery aren't helped by it and have they been counseled before getting the surgery?