channel 4 appears to have become obsessed with showing overly graphic images of genital mutilation, be it in the name of religion or body modification
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It may be worth pointing out that such modification surgery is rarely performed on the NHS... publically-funded provision for those with gender identity disorder isn't good in this country. Consequently, most transsexuals have to pay for all of their treatment privately. And being a woman trapped in man's body, is arguably, in many cases a life-threatening condition... the suicide rate for untreated cases of transsexualism is among the highest for any psychiatric disorder.
It was me in the bath, it was more comfortable than the floor.
Just so you know, I think your comments about transsexualism are extremely insensitive and plain wrong. It is not a question of some nebulous 'we' having a duty towards 'such people'. It is an issue of personal choice for people who are unbelievably tormented by their conviction that they have been born into the wrong body. You make it sound like a trivial issue on the level of cosmetic surgery - a waste of doctor's time - which I feel betrays an ignorance of the powerful emotional and psychological issue involved.
i think you've totally missed my point, i wasnt making any judgement, i'm well aware its much more than a cosmetic thing, and i certainly wasnt trivialising the issue, i just put accross two conflicting points of view without advocating either
I'm sorry if I've misrepresented your point, but the suggestion that we might be better off if doctors "concentrated on saving lives" instead (despite most transexuals funding their own treatment, as someone mentioned earlier) seemed a little off the mark. Treating sex reassignment surgery on the same plane as other body modification risks conflating completely different issues. Questioning its worth seems to treat it as less serious and less damaging than other medical conditions.
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Just so you know, I think your comments about transsexualism are extremely insensitive and plain wrong. It is not a question of some nebulous 'we' having a duty towards 'such people'. It is an issue of personal choice for people who are unbelievably tormented by their conviction that they have been born into the wrong body. You make it sound like a trivial issue on the level of cosmetic surgery - a waste of doctor's time - which I feel betrays an ignorance of the powerful emotional and psychological issue involved.
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