“Absolutely beyond sick.”
There are people who feel they should be minus a limb. It’s a particular limb, not just any. PET scans of their brains reveal irregularities in the region for feeling or controlling that limb. So, sick, undoubtedly. But probably more physically sick than people who want their penis cut off. (Those people tend to commit suicide in spectacular percentages compared to those who don’t have their penis cut off.)
I doubt anybody in previous centuries ever acted on their feelings simply because surviving was so much more difficult. Surely anybody who really worked for a living would need all their limbs and thus ignore whatever drives today’s mentally ill. But today most people can survive without working at all. So they get to indulge their craziness.
It seems the post-surgery people had high hopes that their lives would be soo-o-o- satisfyingly transformed when they switched their sex ---- things turned out disappointing --- they figured then that they now had no other options--- so they killed themselves.
I don't understand why they whole medical profession does not agree that this surgery in unethical. In fact it is serious medical malpractice.
But I guess where there's $$$$....