You can’t fix someone’s mental problems by surgically mutilating their genitals and putting them on opposite sex hormones. Whoever thought of doing that to another human being is an evil monster.
From Dr. Whoever in the article: “There’s no psychiatric intervention for gender dysphoria. There are medical interventions for gender dysphoria, if you will.”
Pretty sure they said this with lobotomies as well. (Johns Hopkins was at the forefront of both lobotomies and transgender operations!).
I pray for when this horrid practice goes the way of lobotomies. (And both were/are done with very little thought of other alternatives.)
From the webs regarding lobotomies:
Baltimore’s Evening Sun reported that “brooding patients” have been “cured”. In 1946, Time [magazine] asserted, “most cases are cured or greatly improved. So far, neurologists have discovered no seriously harmful effects”
Farther on in that article it talks about how the majority of the patients were women. And they would get lobotomies for not being womanly enough! (Swearing, smoking, drinking, etc.) Perhaps the current medical transitioning is closer to the lobotomies than I thought. Trying to get people to fit into a “box”. A girl can’t be a tom-boy anymore - she needs to become a boy!
Further into the article:
Early press accounts reproduced these norms of gender behavior in their claims about lobotomy’s potential to cure, emphasizing women’s aggressive and “animal-like” behavior pre-surgery, and docile, obedient, childlike behavior post-surgery.
One story in Newsday describes the behavior of “the meanest woman in the building,” who is characterized pre-lobotomy as a “hopeless case”: “she kicked, shouted and spat at her attendants, stripped off her clothes in the dining room, and required forced feeding by three husky attendants.”
Two weeks later, the story reports, the “woman went home; made almost childlike by her operation, but full of friendliness and docility.” She is now a “mild, well-liked woman, completely competent for her limited job”