I Honestly Don't Get Transgender

You are still wrongly assuming surgery is either “self-harm” or maltreatment. We do surgery all the time for all kinds of problems and feel no guilt about it. Plastic surgery, neurosurgery, heart surgery, endocrinological surgery, gynecological surgery, dental surgery, urological surgery, craniofacial surgery. Do you seriously believe only lethal conditions are treated surgically (although, for the record, distress and dysphoria do have the potential to be lethal)? And if your assumption is that we should deny medical care, what’s your alternative? If you don’t have any, and if you don’t even acknowledge nor care about the problem – the distress and dysphoria suffered by part of the TG community –, which I’m already long tending to suspect, then what’s the point of criticizing the establishment? Scientists make criticism (“questioning”) within their specialty because they know how to identify operational definitions, they know how to identify problems and they know how to propose solutions. Your statements and questions, however, are nonsensical, because they don’t get the definitions right, have no base on actual psychiatric, endocrinological, psychological, social or surgical data and have no counterargument whatsoever. What’s more, they are based on your personal belief system of body purity, which, in the eyes of science, has no meaning (which means they are irrational beliefs). And no, the TG spectrum, although not a disorder, is not derived from irrational beliefs. Nor are the disorders you mention, anorexia , MPD (controversial in its status, but I’m leaving it here anyway) and addiction. If you don’t have any idea of what you are talking about, why do you even post? Science is not built on “opinions”. The psychological evaluations made before HRT and sometimes even identification itself already do get the definitions right, are aware of the problems and know which are the best ways we know of managing them. They don’t skip steps in the scientific method. And, needless to say, they don’t throw all the steps out of the window, which is what criticism with no scientific grounding does.