In his book _The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat_, Oliver Sacks mentions a man who, because of a brain lesion, felt that one arm wasn't really part of him and was quite distressed. After it was surgically removed, he felt much better. Such cases exist, and as long as we know how to amputate arms but not how to heal brain lesions, it's…
In his book _The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat_, Oliver Sacks mentions a man who, because of a brain lesion, felt that one arm wasn't really part of him and was quite distressed. After it was surgically removed, he felt much better. Such cases exist, and as long as we know how to amputate arms but not how to heal brain lesions, it's only humane to accommodate them. The problem with gender surgery at present is that for ideological reasons, due diligence isn't being applied to make sure that the surgery will actually help and that the dysphoria isn't only temporary. Professionals commanding nice salaries on the basis of certificates hanging on their walls attesting to advanced professional training who don't actually employ that training and instead just rubber-stamp someone's self-diagnosis are committing professional services fraud, regardless of how young or old the patient is.
In his book _The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat_, Oliver Sacks mentions a man who, because of a brain lesion, felt that one arm wasn't really part of him and was quite distressed. After it was surgically removed, he felt much better. Such cases exist, and as long as we know how to amputate arms but not how to heal brain lesions, it's only humane to accommodate them. The problem with gender surgery at present is that for ideological reasons, due diligence isn't being applied to make sure that the surgery will actually help and that the dysphoria isn't only temporary. Professionals commanding nice salaries on the basis of certificates hanging on their walls attesting to advanced professional training who don't actually employ that training and instead just rubber-stamp someone's self-diagnosis are committing professional services fraud, regardless of how young or old the patient is.