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Talk:Gender identity disorder (view source)
Revision as of 00:03, August 16, 2007
, 00:03, August 16, 2007→Iran: response
::"Medical treatment" is provided only when absolutely necessary. It's ensured that the issue is not cosmetic, nor sexually motivated, but rather is fundamental to their identity as its causing them great distress. One can count the number of doctors performing Sexual Reassignment Surgery on one hand. I do not think they could take care of the 40+ million without healthcare. The number of doctors performing breast augmentation on otherwise healthy non-transsexual women is enormous... I think they could take care of the 40+ million without healthcare. --[[User:Puellanivis|Puellanivis]] 19:29, 15 August 2007 (EDT)
::"Medical treatment" is provided only when absolutely necessary. It's ensured that the issue is not cosmetic, nor sexually motivated, but rather is fundamental to their identity as its causing them great distress. One can count the number of doctors performing Sexual Reassignment Surgery on one hand. I do not think they could take care of the 40+ million without healthcare. The number of doctors performing breast augmentation on otherwise healthy non-transsexual women is enormous... I think they could take care of the 40+ million without healthcare. --[[User:Puellanivis|Puellanivis]] 19:29, 15 August 2007 (EDT)
:::Ok, so an not obfuscate an already obfuscated issue any further, the [[YEC]] crowd debates the age of the earth, and as colloquies to that, the age of the human species and human civilization. Most all agree, the species and civilization is 6 to 10K years old. Now in 6 to 10K years, never was it reported, to the best of my knowledge, that persons suffered from GID in need of "therapy" involving genital mutilation.
:::Pardon my frankness, but I am an historian, and part of my job is reporting on contemporary events. And my proferssion is as old as, and as respected as the medical profession, if not possibly older. And the techniques we use of the accumulated wisedom of the ages are not all that dissimiliar.
:::So, given that this "medical condition," in need of "therapy" and the surgical knife, did not exist ''prior'' to doctors learning how to do things like tonsilectomies and appendectomies, and they just converted thier knowledge and experience over to satisfy what appears to be some intellectual challenge or curiousity, and a "medical condition" appears to have been discovered or invented to explain their conduct, none of this acummulated wisdom appears to have an scientific basis at all.
:::This is just the professional opinion of one schooled to make such observations. But in my field (unlike the "professionals" who perform these genital mutilations), I understand my judgment may be wrong. Hence, I do not take actions that I cannot undo later (again, unlike these "professionals" who perform genital mutilations). [[User:RobS|Rob Smith]] 20:03, 15 August 2007 (EDT)