Posted on 09/30/2014 12:02:45 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
If someone came to a doctor and asked him to cut off a perfectly healthy arm because it just felt "wrong" for the arm to be there, should the doctor do it? This isn't an idle question because this does happen with a mental illness called Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID). People who have it feel as if they're not supposed to have a certain body part, like an arm or leg. As a general rule, doctors won't remove a healthy body part; so some of these poor deluded people crush, mangle, burn, or otherwise deliberately destroy their own arms or legs in order to get a surgeon to slice them off.
This raises a question: Are surgeons who refuse to remove healthy limbs from people with BIID doing them a service because they're mentally ill or are they denying them their civil rights? MOST of us would say that a surgeon who refuses to cut off a healthy leg is doing the right thing.
Playing devil’s advocate here...
“If someone came to a doctor and asked him to cut off a perfectly healthy arm because it just felt “wrong” for the arm to be there, should the doctor do it?”
What about circumcision? It also involves cutting off a bit of an (otherwise perfectly healthy) organ? Is that also mental illness?
Dare I HOPE this would be the case, that someone SANE in the pschiatric profession would call a spade, a spade. If a guy says he was a bear, or a whale...he would be getting treatment. Why if he has the plumbing for a guy do we have to believe him because he says he is a woman.
We have one of those in our building, thankfully not on our floor. I don’t know what he looked like as a man, but as a woman he is an absolute dog.
Transgenderism is a biological impossibility.
Town Hall sometimes publishes an article that drives PC police nuts. This is one of them!
100% correct
bump
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“I feel like a man inside”
No you do not. You have no idea what a man feels like!!
Trims some skin off a body part and helps with cleanliness and, according to my doc, results in a lower rate of prostate cancer later in life. All of our boys have been circumcised; I feel like I’ve made many mistakes as a parent, but that isn’t one of them ;-).
Heavy increase in the suicide rate a few years after this surgery. “Exceptionally high” according to an LA Times article.
I am a lesbian trapped in a man’s body.
The procedure has been done almost since the dawn of recorded human history and is safer than ear piercing.
We have one at work. Utterly disgusting.
I dunno... I figure I’m like most men and would happily have surgery to add THREE MORE INCHES GUARANTEED.
As strange as this sounds, the states have never amended the Constitution to make transgenderism an enumerated right. So the states are free to make laws which discriminate against transgenderism imo, as long as such laws don’t unreasonably abridge constitutionally enumerated rights.
Note that corrupt politicians are promising civil rights to protect perversions in order to win votes. The problem is that federal laws concerning civil rights must be reasonably based on enumerated constitutional protections which the states have amended to the Constituton. This is evidenced by wording in several amendments which grant Congress the power to protect a specific right. And many existing federal civil rights laws aren’t supported by enumerated protections and shouldn’t be in the books imo.
Sadly, the reason that politicians have gotten away with establishing constitutionally indefensible civil rights is because parents have not been making sure that their children are being taught the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers.
Most of them around here hang out in the low-price prostitute district.
That is technically still true with homosexuals. But the courts have grown to call any law which regulates their conduct “irrational.”
It's an interesting question. One could say that all the patient ultimately has is his model of the world and himself; on the other hand, the physician might say hopefully that world view will change and normalize, and the patient would miss what's been removed.
I remember being a small restaurant and there was “one of those” a table over, facing me. A poor imitation, btw. I complained to management and got my money back and left in disgust.
I sure wouldn’t want someone like that in my place of business.
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