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To: aculeus
The controversy has led some medics and transsexuals to question whether it is appropriate for people confused about their gender identity to undergo an irreversible operation.

Well duh.

If you hated your arm and wanted to cut it off you would be treated as having a psychological disorder. You would not be treated by having a surgeon cut off your arm.

23 posted on 07/31/2004 8:24:59 AM PDT by kennedy
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To: kennedy
If you hated your arm and wanted to cut it off you would be treated as having a psychological disorder.

But if you hated your brain and you cut it out, you would be seen as a typical democrat.

30 posted on 07/31/2004 8:41:51 AM PDT by FITZ
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To: kennedy

Actually there are such people. They want to have one or more limbs amputated. I forget the term. Some surgeous have actually done this. The world has gone mad.


32 posted on 07/31/2004 8:45:57 AM PDT by RichardW
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To: kennedy

" If you hated your arm and wanted to cut it off you would be treated as having a psychological disorder. You would not be treated by having a surgeon cut off your arm."
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While that used to be universally true, there are people who do hate their limbs and want them cut off and just as we had doctors who became willing to mutilate for sex changes, we already have some physicians who now advocate taking off healthy limbs for the psycological well-being of these obviously disturbed souls.

We now live in a world where, over time, all manner of deviant thought is proclaimed as normal and helped on it's way to infect yet more of our lost and rudderless children. No matter the deviancy, the medical stamp of approval is sought to help those who are consumed by it to continue on without the burden of guilt or remorse. The problem is, we are not a better, safer, nor happier society because of it. We are only more confused, depressed, and angry and we breed more of the same.

Since medicine seeks to reduce everything to the physical, they seek to make people well by declaring more and more as normal and healthy and attacking whatever is left of the problem with a scalpel and some pills. They do the people who suffer from these disorders few favors and only keep the line waiting at the revolving door of misery moving.


40 posted on 07/31/2004 9:17:24 AM PDT by Route66 (America's Mainstreet)
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