You're a laugh riot. Also a high degree of empathy, with impeccable moral character! So much so that you believe the best way to medically treat folks with profound mental illness, is to shoot them up with hormones and mutilate their genitals!
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In the sense that it causes acute suffering for the person experiencing it - to a person that faces discrimination for wearing what s/he feels most comfortable in, or to the person who gets beaten nearly to death just for existing - then yes, transsexuality is a disability. It needn't be if ignorant fucks like the OP didn't (a) demonise persons effected, and (b) indicate that sex reassignment is something done entirely *to* successful candidates rather than it being a 'choice' persons make for thsemselves (in part because the OP seems to think anyone who feels different in their own skins are somehow lacking in agency or autonomy).
Those hormones don't just give themselves, and nor do people stumble into SRS without having first been thoroughly prepped and run through a gauntlet of tests and invasive questioning.
If transsexuality were a disability, the most effective cure would be - and, in fact, usually is - some level of sex reassignment. Whether that needs to include SRS or merely hormone therapy and dressing appropriately for the gender to which they were likely wired in the womb to belong - that is exclusively the transgendered individual's choice (or should be).
"Hah, I bet you believe that the best way to treat someone with a defective heart is to pump them up with chemicals, mutilate their chest, and then start jabbing around in the chest cavity!" -- jollygaggin, in that same thread.
Up until about 1930, the treatment for transexuals was th basically brainwash them. There’re like 30 things in the body that contribute to one’s sexual identity.
Your medical knowledge, on the other hand, is contemporary to thinking the pineal gland was how the body produced snot.
Confused?
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