[reaganaut1]

In a country where an influential fraction of the population has gone insane, it is necessary to state obvious things like "transgender surgery isn't the solution", although it is more honestly termed genital mutilation.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Yet due to liberalism, we are supposed to be sympathetic to the “LGBT” community. We no longer just talk about “gays”, we have to include the “T” or trans-gendered.

And we see this affect public policies, such as some cities which cover sex change operations in their public employee health plans.

Does Obamacare cover sex change operations? I would be surprised if it didn’t because it’s “homophobic” and “discriminatory” NOT to do these operations, in this politically correct world we live in.

[Vigilanteman]

Under the ObaMao regime, legitimate veterans who bled for this country get put on VA wait lists and encouraged to die while poster boy turncoats like Pvt. Manning get fast-tracked to sex-change operations.

[jdege]

I am absolutely opposed to making decisions about other people’s lives based on statistics gathered in observational studies. In this, or in any other case.

Just as it’s absurd to say that a nurse can’t carry a gun while walking to her car after working the night shift, because of purported statistics about what other people are likely to do, it’s absurd to say that gender reassignment is or is not appropriate for any individual, based on the same sort of statistical studies.

People aren’t statistics.

[Malone LaVeigh]

The study revealed that beginning about 10 years after having the surgery, the transgendered began to experience increasing mental difficulties.

So they start having second thoughts years after they've hacked off their genitals? Kind of like a suicide changing his mind after he's jumped off the roof of a tall building.

[TalBlack]

We at Johns Hopkins University—which in the 1960s was the first American medical center to venture into “sex-reassignment surgery”—

I was about 12 when I first heard the “reassignment” term used and it so forcefully struck me as the most amazingly stupid arrogance that I wondered how it’s issuers could not see it. But that’s ARROGANCE for you...

[magellan]

Truth.

“Truth isn’t mean, it’s truth.” - Andrew Breitbart

Throwing truth on a liberal is like Dorothy throwing water on the Wicked Witch of the West.

[tbw2]

A mentally ill adult says I want to have major surgery to remove body parts. We used to say if you get a year of counseling and pay for it, you can. Now it is considered a right as LBGTA and covered by public sector health plans and some company health plans.
Now we are seeing bad parents listening to a child express these emotions and then give them life altering hormonal injections to prevent normal development - in children too young to stay home alone for an hour. “Trans” children are disturbed, and parents who give in to the LBGTA pressure to alter their bodies based on mental illness are by definition unfit.

[LibertarianLiz]

I once looked at suicide rates in the U.S. Homosexuals have a higher suicide rate than heterosexuals. The one that really blew me away was the "transgender teens". Now, that we actually allow teenagers (not known for their good judgement) to participate in this drastic surgical procedure troubled me greatly; but, the suicide rate for transgender teens was just shy of 50%.

Now, if a drug company tried to put a drug on the market where half of teens that take the drug tried to kill themselves, they would be hounded out of business. Yet, because this has a sexual aspect, same sex, sexual aspect; we are not allowed to even broach the subject of suicide.

I posited on a previous thread along the same subject matter; that, perhaps, those of us in opposition are the truly compassionate ones; because we understand that this is not a solution to the problems of these very troubled people.

[Alex Murphy]

When children who reported transgender feelings were tracked without medical or surgical treatment at both Vanderbilt University and London's Portman Clinic, 70%-80% of them spontaneously lost those feelings. Some 25% did have persisting feelings; what differentiates those individuals remains to be discerned.

PFL

[Elsie]

Transgender Surgery Isn't the Solution

Oh?

People who have undergone the medical procedure; Lopadickoffami; have NEVER been charged with RAPE afterward!

[Impy]

It’s a shame the mental health community has decided that these people don’t need treatment.

You think you are supposed to have different genitals so the solution is to mutilate them and pretend you are the sex you want to be. What about people who think they should be trees? Should they go stand in a pot of dirt? Or maybe SEE A SHRINK?

[exDemMom]

My sense of so-called “transgendered” people is that they have a deep self-hatred, which they direct at one of the most fundamental aspects of self, gender. They so thoroughly displace their self-hate onto their genitals that they imagine that if their genitals were removed, they would magically become a different person, one that they actually like being.

It cannot happen, of course. Their problems are not caused by being born as the “wrong” gender, they are caused by a multitude of factors. And those factors need to be identified and treated, so that those people can learn to accept themselves.

With children, I have the feeling that the “transgender” identification has a simpler cause. Maybe they are jealous of all the things they perceive that people of the opposite gender can do, which they can’t. Or it is just a form of make-believe, like having an imaginary friend. I remember going through a phase where I pretended that I was a chicken, and told stories about my chicken life. It would have been highly inappropriate for my parents to pay a doctor to surgically implant feathers and a beak onto me—just as inappropriate as it is for parents of a “transgender” child to administer hormones and physically mutilate the child to make him or her superficially resemble his or her fantasy gender.