TRANSGENDERThe language around 'gender affirment surgeries'

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[–][deleted] 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Call what it is, surgical mutilation. Don't play their word games.

I don't think most people would really care if someone could actually change their gender, but chopping off your dick and leaving an open wound that smells like feces and has a hair ball problem is not it.

Similarly obviously, chicks cutting off their tits doesn't make them men.

What does any of the word salad doctors use matter when we're just finding different ways to avoid discussing the elephant in the room.

[–]awkwardphilosopher 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I'm not sure that language is helpful, because people get similar surgeries all the time for legitimate reasons (like mastectomies for breast cancer). Implying that these people are "mutilated" seems harmful and probably will add stigma to detransition. I view it similarly to elective cosmetic surgery. It definitely should not be praised in front of kids.

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Cutting off a diseased part of the body is medicine. And the goal of cosmetic surgery is to improve one's appearance. SRS is neither of those things. Cutting off healthy, normal bits is mutilation.

probably will add stigma to detransition

I think hurting their feeling with a blunt choice of words is the least of post-op detrans concerns. I don't know if you read r/detrans, but these people know they fucked up bad. I don't think sugar-coating it is going to do any good.