I've always had a theory that the worse thing that can happen to a person is to get their heart's desire.
I've seen people obsess over things for years - possessions, people, jobs, houses - to the point where they think "if only...then I will be happy, finally".
9 times out of 10 when they finally succeed they fall into a depression, because it didn't change their lives into the miracle they had emotionally invested it with all that time.
I can imagine it's a lot worse when that obsession includes body mutilation and your general sense of self. I'm just surprised it's not more common. I bet it is, and they just refuse to acknowledge they are still unhappy, because that would destroy them.
This is sad. Even the "alternative" LA Weekley had a sad story of an unlicensed
"sex-change" doctor here in So. California.
What bunch of educated scam artists some of these sex-change medicos are.
The analogy I use about giving surgery to someone desperate to change sex is it's a bit like offering liposuction to an anorexic."
Does Finch have a point? Ferguson says only hormones and surgery have proved effective in treating transsexualism. "Psychotherapy has not been successful at 'curing' transsexuals in contrast to people with other body identity disorders, such as anorexia or body dysmorphia."
No, the person has a deeply troubled soul. It's too bad people weren't trying to help the person when the trouble first started. Now they are very lost.
It's surreal that doctors exist that will perform such surgery. They should all be in jail.
Actually, most sex change operations lead to prostitution as the he/shes need to pay for their surgery somehow. Its only one small step to depression and possible suicide from there.
Some things should go without saying.