santa100 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 26, 2022 7:29 pm
KathyLauren wrote: ↑Sun Jun 26, 2022 7:00 pm
Nobody jumps right into transition surgery. That isn't how it works.
The person must have been on transition hormones for a year and have lived full-time in their new gender for a year before any surgeon will consider their application. They must have letters from two psychologists attesting to the fact that they have been evaluated and found to have genuine gender dysphoria.
So the medical profession is well ahead of you on this.
Kathy
Like i said, how can you be so sure that the person would absolutely need those transition hormones at the first place?
Like I said, the people are interviewed extensively by psychologists. It is not difficult to diagnose gender dysphoria with the proper training. And the effects of hormones are evident very quickly. If they turn out to be the wrong solution, that will be apparent within a few weeks, at which point they can be discontinued. It is very common to prescribe a trial dose to determine this exact thing.
Has modern science identified absolutely 100% all side effects of transition hormones?
That is very silly. Nothing in life is absolutely 100%. But yes, the side effects are very well known, and have been studied over many decades. No medication is prescribed on the basis of 100% absolute certainty. They are prescribed on the basis of harm reduction: the side effects are a lesser harm than the problem they are intended to treat.
What if they grow out of it at some point?
If the diagnosis of gender dysphoria is accurate, and it is not a difficult one to make, the person will not grow out of it. Dysphoria typically gets worse as life goes on. As a result, the choice is often between transition or suicide.
If the diagnosis is not accurate, that will be apparent before any lasting harm occurs.
Besides, doctors also need to make a living, hence their natural preferable "prescription-pill" tendency, hence the hammer and the nail problem.
That is a problem of commercial health care.
Kathy