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[–]Femaleisnthateful 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I bookmarked that; really interesting. I had to keep reminding myself that it was from 1979. I can only imagine what those psychologists and surgeons would say about the current state of things.

It's interesting to see how far the narrative has changed, from tempering expectations and acknowledging that surgery won't change anything about a patient's internal state, to claiming that surgical interventions are 'life-saving'.

It's also worth noting how the screening criteria for surgeries has been undermined. It seems that there was once a stringent screening process, with an expectation that a person life successfully in the opposite sex role for 1-2 years before surgery. That's now gone.

[–]divingrightintowork[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

yeah shockingly a lot of GCs/RFs are ok with there being medical options available so long as they're done under an ethical research / cost / benefit informed framework, with no collateral... which is what a lot of this seemed to be.