(07-17-2017 11:06 PM)Paul M Wrote:  

(07-17-2017 06:54 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  

(07-17-2017 04:42 PM)Paul M Wrote:  Cutting off or attaching a dong is malpractice. It's a mental issue and should be treated as such, not as a physical issue.

What other mental illness is it appropriate to mutilate someone. You cut out a cancer or a diseased appendix, not a healthy functioning sex organ.

Hundreds of thousands of practicing medical professionals agree with me. Your side has, maybe 200 practicing 'doctors' supporting your view.

Why would you think I care about what you and thousands of other loons think.

It's a mental disorder. Period. Mutilating healthy bodies is malpractice.

Especially since evidence shows that what those quacks are doing does little to nothing to resolve the underlying issues.

> The overall mortality for sex-reassigned persons was higher during follow-up (aHR 2.8; 95% CI 1.8–4.3) than for controls of the same birth sex, particularly death from suicide (aHR 19.1; 95% CI 5.8–62.9).

> Sex-reassigned persons also had an increased risk for suicide attempts (aHR 4.9; 95% CI 2.9–8.5) and psychiatric inpatient care (aHR 2.8; 95% CI 2.0–3.9). Comparisons with controls matched on reassigned sex yielded similar results. Female-to-males, but not male-to-females, had a higher risk for criminal convictions than their respective birth sex controls.

Someone has a mental issue, you mutilate their body with the promise that they will feel better. But they don't feel better and get even more despondent.