Post by NishmatHaChalil on Mar 26, 2017 18:41:05 GMT
Right, so major reconstructive surgery to look like a different person even though the parts won't work is perfectly sane as long as it makes you happy.
No reason to even ask questions. That's casual family dinner conversation.
How is the pink text different from any major surgery at all, which includes all plastic surgery? Or the green text, for that matter? We are willing to cut into your skull and implant devices in your brain to decrease your suffering. We are even willing to cut parts of your brain to do so. Why wouldn't we be willing to make so much less risky and complicate changes to achieve our aims?
As for the orange text, it's not. Where did you get that idea? It's casual medical conversation, which is to be held between specialists in TG issues, or between them and their patients. You are not supposed to be a part of it, because you don't know the definitions, don't know the steps involved, you disregard them altogether and you are not even personally involved so as to make your input significant as an object of study.
Regarding the blue text, the questions, criticisms, comments and suggestions that matter are asked and published by the specialists in the field, who know the definitions, know the entire process step by step, as well as the reasons behind it, and are updated about the most recent results and meta-analyses. Your criticisms or "questioning" are, to the eyes of science, rubbish. And yes, they are not rational, since rational means, as it regards to scientific knowledge, conforming to the method, to the available results and their weighting by meta-analysis, which informs their correct, scientific interpretation. You are not even able to present anything rational at your level of knowledge, be it a critical question or a judgment. You are, yes, able (and welcome!) to inform yourself of why things happen as they do. If you by any chance happen to read the official and most reliable sources and show them to other people, you are even able to help the scientific community inform them. Nothing more, nothing less. That's the extent to which you matter, or any other person who is not specialized in it nor is undergoing the process (in which their input may matter in certain parts of it).