>>11358863Ok, let me use a different example. Hearing a therapist tell me that would make me feel hopeless, so it was the example I used. The end goal is still to make you not depressed, because a person's MO should be to wake up in the morning with factory setting. Human being should not feel depressed, anxious, sick, and like they should have a vagina when they actually have a penis. It's important with transgender who are moving towards body mutilation that you don't just say ok go for it you are who you are, because it's not a natural state of being for a human to feel they are the opposite sex. It doesnt matter the reason why they feel that way, what matters is it is not natural, even if it is some sort if biological problem, because then it would be like saying cancer is natural. Most people are in the state that they are because of trauma, emotional, physical, maybe even environmental. So your end goal should be to revert that person back to a factory setting if you can, if its psychological. Your end goal should not be to encourage that person to just remain depressed, or psychotic, antisocial, anxious, and so on. Do you think if someone feels like the opposite sex and they are depressed, do you think of the two realistic options they have, that they'd choose to have their penis chopped off and live as a woman forever on hormones and shoving shit up their hole and probably still living with depression, or to feel normal in their own skin? So why do psychiatrists seem to be just pushing them down a conveyer belt until the final product is gender reassignment surgery? Especially when there is significant risk for regret and suicide after the fact. If those are big risk factors in the end, and they are big risk factors in the now, it seems a better bet to try and move towards the least risk factor which would be figuring out why they feel this way and how to help them feel normal, as in without the burden of feeling the opposite of what is true.
