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[–]LtGreenCo 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

The Gender Medicine industry needs to be stopped and the people involved need to be thrown in jail. They know damn well these surgeries don't cure the dysphoria, and they know damn well making faux-vaginas from inverting dicks or making faux-dicks from forearm skin is barbaric and unnecessary and will never ever come even close to the real thing. They are selling expensive pipe dreams to mentally ill people, and this industry, and the culture that enables this shit, needs to be called out and shut down.

[–]ClassroomPast6178 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It is a very strange situation. People with body dysmorphia aren’t offered amputations and people with eating disorders aren’t offered bariatric surgery, so why are people with gender dysphoria being offered mutilating surgeries and being told that that is the best course of treatment?

The push to ban “conversion therapies” in the UK is nothing more than an effort to make the medical/surgical affirmation route the only therapeutic option for people with GD. It is simply a cynical piece of legislation that addresses a non-issue, gay conversion therapy just isn’t happening in the 21st century UK and the fact that there is no ring fencing for ethical psychological therapies for people with GD makes me suspect that outlawing anything but affirmation is the whole point.

That being said, the aesthetic cosmetic surgery and dentistry industries also need a massive investigation as well, some of the horror stories that come out about stuff that is happening in Eastern European, Turkish, SE Asian and S American surgical and dental clinics are the stuff of nightmares.

[–]Haylstorm 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Speaking of cosmetic dentistry...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58038752

Horrible to think about. Can't imagine ruining my mouth over it, teeth aren't something to mess around with.