Is Transsexualism A Mental Disease?

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[JAMESBJOHNSON]

It always has been. At the least its a psychotic disorder because folks are male or female not some menu choice.

 

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[ms_ann_thrope]

Like the man says, they're either feminized males or masculinized females, but nuts just the same.

Why? Did you "catch it"?

 

[Sean Renaud]

What difference does it make so long as they aren't hurting anybody?

 

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[GyratingGiraffe]

No, not hardly, but I did have to keep a straight face while interviewing a chick with a highly suspicious 5 0' clock shadow a while back.

I'm guessing she was more of a lady than you were a gentleman. Classless.

 

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[Liar]

Just because renard_ruse hasn't been around for a while doesn't mean someone else has to carry his torch.

 

[cjh]

Why enable them, they are sick people.

Sick how?

 

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[IrezumiKiss]

Just because renard_ruse hasn't been around for a while doesn't mean someone else has to carry his torch.

This sure is something straight outta his playbook, true. What ever happened to ol' Renny, anyhoo?

Y'think...maybe...The Ebola® got 'im?

*ghulps*

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Why? Did you "catch it"?

^^^^Has hair in her ears.

 

[cjh]

Read the article it was written by a doctor.

Most doctors disagree.

http://www.edgeboston.com/news/nati...ts:_transgender_no_longer_a_mental_’disorder’

 

[pointless]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U2zJOryHKQ

 

[Sean Renaud]

Why enable them, they are sick people.

So are we all. If they aren't hurting me or for that matter themselves there is no reason to bother them. We know that conservatism by definition leads to extinction but we dont' even joke about putting you in a home.

 

[LadyFunkenstein]

They have an incredibly high suicide rate, around 40%. I find it bizarre that if you have a leg amputated people recognize that something is wrong, or if you have your brats remix, something is wrong, but removing your penis is a celebration of one's true self. Transgenderism is occurring in high rates among certain species, such as a type of bass in the mood Atlantic in which 90% of males are carrying eggs. (on my phone or I would post a link.) it is easy to Google and it is on our own govt website. The fish are changing gender due to xenoestrogens, synthetic hormones and endocrine disruptors in the water supply. I believe that humans are affected as well, and our society would rather normalize the results of pollution rather than do something about it.

 

[Sean Renaud]

You don't think that your attitude is part of why they have such a high suicide rate?

 

[LadyFunkenstein]

You don't think that your attitude is part of why they have such a high suicide rate?

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Everything I said is based on fact, and nowhere did I say they shouldn't be treated with respect as human beings because they absolutely should. But they need therapy. If those statements drove them to commit suicide, that is further evidence of just how much mental assistance they need.

 

[Sean Renaud]

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Everything I said is based on fact, and nowhere did I say they shouldn't be treated with respect as human beings because they absolutely should. But they need therapy. If those statements drove them to commit suicide, that is further evidence of just how much mental assistance they need.

So basically if you tell someone they are broken and it drives them to suicide it's proof they are broken?

 

[RjThoughts]

There are some doctors that believe homosexuality is a mental disease. Then again, those are ones that believe the Earth's just 6000 years old.

 

[LadyFunkenstein]

John Hopkins was the first medical center in the US perform sex reassignment surgery. They no longer perform them because they determined that it is dangerous because those people need mental help first and formost.

http://m.wsj.com/articles/paul-mchugh-transgender-surgery-isnt-the-solution-1402615120?mobile=y

"We *at Johns Hopkins University—which in the 1960s was the first American medical center to venture into "sex-reassignment surgery"—launched a study in the 1970s comparing the outcomes of transgendered people who had the surgery with the outcomes of those who did not. Most of the surgically treated patients described themselves as "satisfied" by the results, but their subsequent psycho-social adjustments were no better than those who didn't have the surgery. And so at Hopkins we stopped doing sex-reassignment surgery, since producing a "satisfied" but still troubled patient seemed an inadequate reason for surgically amputating normal organs.

It now appears that our long-ago decision was a wise one. A 2011 study at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden produced the most illuminating results yet regarding the transgendered, evidence that should give advocates pause. The long-term study—up to 30 years—followed 324 people who had sex-reassignment surgery. The study revealed that beginning about 10 years after having the surgery, the transgendered began to experience increasing mental difficulties. Most shockingly, their suicide mortality rose almost 20-fold above the comparable nontransgender population. This disturbing result has as yet no explanation but probably reflects the growing sense of isolation reported by the aging transgendered after surgery. The high suicide rate certainly challenges the surgery prescription."

 

[kbate]

I listened politely, you idiot, and made no judgments, except he was unqualified and a bit comical in his ruse. I just wasn't running a side show.

Non judgmentally decided this person was a 'side-show'. right.

 

[LadyFunkenstein]

So basically if you tell someone they are broken and it drives them to suicide it's proof they are broken?

Read my last post. I trust the pioneers of the surgery who are essentially admitting that they fucked up and in fact are opening themselves up for lawsuots by making those statements. . You are free to tell those medical professionals that you know better.