DolanReloadedI don't think ppl care for the most part.
But how would you feel if your son told you at age 14 he wanted to chop off his dick and become a girl, then 6 years later he kills himself and blames you and society for being so irresponsible THAT YOU ACTUALLY ENCOURAGED IT.
I wore my mom's pink bunny slippers when i was a child. That doesn't mean my parents should sit me down and say "son, we think you might be happier if a doctor cuts your dick off and digs out a vagina". If i did, i would probably kill myself years later, just like all these trans gender ppl are killing themselves. Have some faith in your DNA for fuck sake.
First off I didn't say anything about transgenders. I was replying specifically to a comment implying that there should only be 2 boxes to check and people should define themselves as either male of female. My point was that if people want to define themselves as non-binary, then good for them, it shouldn't be anyone's business but their own.
You're raising a completely different topic which is the question of sex reassignment surgery, is it always the solution and how young should people be allowed to access that type of surgery. Fair questions, but you're missing a lot of things and taking a lot of shortcuts in your reasoning. First off no one 14 will be allowed to have that surgery for the simple reason that legally you have to be at least 17 years old.
Then you're implying that the high suicide rates are a consequence of the surgery, which is a leap. The same population without the surgery might have the exact same suicide rate, or even worse, for all you know. People who killed themselves after getting the surgery might have ended up committing suicide just the same without doing the surgery. Correlation isn't causation.
Finally I don't think parents are out there forcing their kids to have a sex reassignment surgery, so your characterization of parents pushing their kids to "chop their dicks off" at 14 because they wear pink bunny slippers is just nonsense.
If we leave out all the nonsense of your reasoning, as I previously stated, I think the questions you raise are:
- Is it an effective solution?
- Are people happier in the long run?
- How do you determine who should get it and not get it, and at what age?
I don't fucking know, buddy. These are all complicated questions that do not have simple answers, and I am not an expert. I don't have the data or knowledge on the topic to provide an educated answer. I'm assuming some qualified people are working on these questions out there, and my only opinion is that if it actually helps some people be happier, then why not, and I think it's a decision people should make for themselves, with the appropriate guidance to help them make that decision.
And since you mentioned God, I don't think God, if he exists, would give a fuck about what people do with their own genitalia.
