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Talk:Gender identity disorder (view source)
Revision as of 21:31, August 19, 2007
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::::::Modern Medicine has learned a lot over our history, and we're better now at curing disease than we ever have been. Just because we consider transsexuals the new lepers, does not mean we do not know now how to help, and ease their pain and suffering. Just like giving a deaf person a cocular implant so that they can hear (limitedly, but even just 10% is better than 0%). --[[User:Puellanivis|Puellanivis]] 18:16, 16 August 2007 (EDT)
::::::Modern Medicine has learned a lot over our history, and we're better now at curing disease than we ever have been. Just because we consider transsexuals the new lepers, does not mean we do not know now how to help, and ease their pain and suffering. Just like giving a deaf person a cocular implant so that they can hear (limitedly, but even just 10% is better than 0%). --[[User:Puellanivis|Puellanivis]] 18:16, 16 August 2007 (EDT)
:::::::Two questions: (a) what do you mean by "transexual"? Firstly, you appear to state flatly it is a "disease", whereas as I understand the term "transexual", these are some sort of man-made beings that never existed prior to about the 1950s. (b) "The Old law requirements for leprosy did little to actually prevent the spread of leprosy"; this law was primarily segregation and quarantine. And I would probably dispute this premise, so perhaps you need more of a foundation for this claim. [[User:RobS|Rob Smith]] 16:15, 19 August 2007 (EDT)
:::::::Two questions: (a) what do you mean by "transexual"? Firstly, you appear to state flatly it is a "disease", whereas as I understand the term "transexual", these are some sort of man-made beings that never existed prior to about the 1950s. (b) "The Old law requirements for leprosy did little to actually prevent the spread of leprosy"; this law was primarily segregation and quarantine. And I would probably dispute this premise, so perhaps you need more of a foundation for this claim. [[User:RobS|Rob Smith]] 16:15, 19 August 2007 (EDT)
::::::::(a) "Transsexual" is some person who suffers from Gender Identity Disorder to such a strong extent that they are certain that they are a member of the opposite sex, regardless of what medical treatment they have, or will receive. A more narrow interpretation of this would be those who have received surgical and/or medical alterations, and that these man-made medical alterations need be sufficient for the person to interact as a member of the opposite sex. However, whether we have an effective treatment now, as opposed to what we had before does not change the nature of the disease. A systemic bacteria infection was "known" since the beginnings of man, however not until the discovery of antibiotics was it possible to actually treat them in any sort of effective manner. (b) Leprosy is a very very weak bacteria, requiring 20 days to reproduce (as opposed to 20 minutes from some E. Coli strains). In fact it has as of July 2007 evaded all attempts to culture in vitro as it is so weak. Approximately 90% of the human population is naturally immune. Isolation and Quarantine have been shown scientifically to be entirely unnecessary to prevent its spread. While it is likely ideal to remove a person from their home, as they are relatively more likely to not be immune, if they are related. However total isolation and quarantine from the general populace, is entirely unnecessary. The Old law requirements for leprosy mimic more the known superstitious beliefs surrounding leprosy in non-modern cultures, as opposed to modern knowledge regarding information about leprosy which is now empirically and non-controversially known among doctors. --[[User:Puellanivis|Puellanivis]] 17:31, 19 August 2007 (EDT)