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We should fix their brains, and not mutilate their genitals.
(And that's how you throw gas on a fire, young padawan.)
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Or don't, and continue to let the PC crowd tell you what you have to think. The choice is yours.
I'll rise to the bait :-) (Score:2)
FTFA:
According to a British poll, a whopping 65 percent of those who’ve had various cosmetic surgeries regret it. People who regret their tattoos, plastic surgery, or more extreme body modifications
80% of women who have breast augmentation surgery regret that they didn't go one cup size larger. Does that mean that they (or the men around them) regret the surgery? Come on.
A Swedish study from 2003 found that post-operative mortality and suicide rates for transsexuals are many times higher than the general population. And that’s in Sweden, probably the friendliest environment on the planet for transgender individuals.
The people studied dated all the way back to 1973. Not exactly a LGBTt-friendly era anywhere on the planet outside of parts of SanFran. Change, and attitudes, happen slowly.
Suicide is the #10 cause of death world-wide - seems to me that the general population has the same problem.
There is never any 100% satisfaction wi
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I've got 2 daughters
OK, so this is now a rare occasion where I'm not trolling, but I'm genuinely curious:
Were you the biological father of these children? If so, how do you reconcile your currently expressed gender with this fact?
Because, you're different then say the XY birth defect, and because you weren't sterile, but biologically reproduced via a sperm cell (twice), this fits the biological definition of a male.
So, I guess the question is, since your DNA has a Y chromosome
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Thanks for asking - and I really enjoyed reading the article - thanks for pointing it out.
It's com-pli-ca-ted!!! Really complicated.
Or, as I say now, I'm more than my genes.
I guess I should update this [slashdot.org] - it's from 9 years ago, and we now know more than we did then (that's science for you - it's a moving target, which is a good thing).
The quick answer (for those who are tl;dr-afflicted) is that humans and other animals are more complicated that we ever imagined, and that genes help determine behavio