That's because "Max" is mentally ill and needs mental health treatment. Enabling this illness is malpractice.
That's because "Max" is mentally ill and needs mental health treatment. Enabling this illness is malpractice.
Conclusions
Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group.
The desire to self-harm does not go away after so called sex reassignment surgery, as you say, because the underlying mental illness is still there.
Unfortunately, the mental health community is filled with people who think "Max" should have his way.
The guy who started this whole thing did so because he thought if the body agreed with the brain, then the person would be having fewer psychological problems.
After 25 years, he stopped doing the procedure because the psychological problems these people had did NOT get better.
We need to find a better way to help these people other than mutilating them.
Also, I will throw out the brain studies that came out some years ago. Didn't see them? Well, I'm sure they were deep sixed. It seems that the human brain does not finish making all of the connections it needs to until people are in their 20's. For females, around 24; for males, around 26-28. I contend that such major decisions as cutting off you penis, should wait until you have a fully functioning brain.