When you're an adult and you can't afford surgery with skilled surgeons, you get shunned by the less accepting parts of society, which leads directly to increased morbidity.
When you suppress treatment before adulthood -> higher surgical costs.
When you don't treat it at all -> quiet suicide, causes get buried in the statistics.
I lived through all of these things. It was an impossible childhood. I lived with this in total secrecy and agony until my early 40s. I'm 45 now, and I've had all my surgeries. I know what hundreds of thousands of dollars buying the best care can bring. None of that is available in Finland, where this study was done.
(I had the luxury of making my peace with my father before he passed.)
DoctorOetker•30m ago
If says science fails to form consensus on the role of the female orgasm, due to religious taboos, how can humans possibly turn say men into females? at most a superficial transition is possible under those circumstances.
Kids frequently dream of being a type of animal, birds or flying animals in general being very popular. Do they commit suicide over species-dysphoria? Should we convert children simply because there is less financial demand for conversion of children (and thus commensurate lower prices that can be charged) then there is financial demand from adult controlling bigger incomes than children do (and thus making it possible to charge more for adults)?
the MIC (medical industrial complex) has a lot in common with psychiatric increase in morbidity after gender reassignments: a refusal to accept what is natural.
taraharris•10m ago
I get it. I'm the "unnatural" aberration, and my existence threatens you. But you'll just have to live with that because that thousand-year Reich isn't coming :)
taraharris•1h ago
When you suppress treatment before adulthood -> higher surgical costs.
When you don't treat it at all -> quiet suicide, causes get buried in the statistics.
I lived through all of these things. It was an impossible childhood. I lived with this in total secrecy and agony until my early 40s. I'm 45 now, and I've had all my surgeries. I know what hundreds of thousands of dollars buying the best care can bring. None of that is available in Finland, where this study was done.
(I had the luxury of making my peace with my father before he passed.)
DoctorOetker•30m ago
Kids frequently dream of being a type of animal, birds or flying animals in general being very popular. Do they commit suicide over species-dysphoria? Should we convert children simply because there is less financial demand for conversion of children (and thus commensurate lower prices that can be charged) then there is financial demand from adult controlling bigger incomes than children do (and thus making it possible to charge more for adults)?
the MIC (medical industrial complex) has a lot in common with psychiatric increase in morbidity after gender reassignments: a refusal to accept what is natural.
taraharris•10m ago