Yes, these poor, poor people really do suffer terribly. If you read the article the jokes die on your lips. This is madness and these people have been permitted to thoroughly destroy their lives. How wretched they must be. But society tells them this is permissible and society pays for these surgical atrocities. (Let's not forget that last bit: these procedures are horrendously expensive and I'm sure none of these fundamentally unsuccessful people are footing the bill themselves.)
Yes --- that's true but it still doesn't make something like this less funny or weird.
Albeit, if "society tells them this [the castration] is permissible" is the accelerator, than mandating that the individual,not society, should himself pay for the procedure should be the brake.If wanted bad enough, whether castration, plastic surgery, an ocean cruise around the world, or new roof, a person will find the money for it.
"Society" pays for things like curbs, street lights, waste treatment plants,etc. b/c society (a conglomerate of men and women) benefit from such expenditure. Taxpayers footing the bill for self/self directed-mutilation (castration, body piercing, etc.) benefits no one ...not even, apparently, the recipient.
This is about the UK where the government pays.
Based on your reply I went and read the entire, rather long actually, piece. Very disturbing. I did like what the one person said "You can say you're Napoleon but unless the whole world agrees with you, you patently are not Napoleon."