But the person having the operations believe they are BECOMING what they truly are...
They have the body of a man but feel like a woman, so they want a body to match.
Are they just having an identity crises -- that's the question.
The writer I spoke of earler learned that he just had an identity crises.
(he was a man, became a woman, changed back to a man)
Yes, of course, it's an identity crisis. If someone was convinced he was a dog in a man's body, is it right for a doctor to mutilate him to look like a dog? Doctors should have some good sense. Which is more responsible, performing an expensive 'species change' operation, or saying, 'Dude, you are not a dog'? Clearly the latter. Saying 'Dude, you are a dude' is a lot kinder than turning the man into a eunuch and performing artful mutilations to make him appear to be a woman.
If a patient came to a doctor and said, "I don't like my hand. It doesn't hurt. I just don't like it. Can you cut it off?', should the doctor do it? If he did, shouldn't he go to jail? Why don't they arrest the doctors who cut off these other appendages at the patient's request?
People should try to talk transexuals out of trying to be transexuals and doctors shouldn't support and encourage mental and emotional problems.
I read an article online of how Johns Hopkins hospital, which pioneered some of the surgery, stopped doing it when they realized they were harming patients, not helping them. If I remember correctly, suicide rates among those who'd undergone the surgery were around 40%.