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saimen@feddit.org 5 weeks agoThat’s what I was also thinking and can understand. What I don’t understand is to really physically alter and damage your body to match your physiology to your desired gender. Is this really necessary? In the end it’s only a superficial change aa well and factually and genetically you will still be of a certain biological sex.
Baggie@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
As I said, it’s not mandatory. It’s a personal choice, not much different to a piercing, tattoo or bodymod in my mind. I don’t particularly care for any of those, but it’s not my body that it’s being done to either, so my feelings are largely irrelevant.
Beyond that, the motivations of any other person are going to be somewhat alien, because people cannot truely know or communicate experiences beyond a very surface level. You or I cannot fully understand, because we haven’t experienced it. We have to trust that stuff like this is what they want, because that is what they’re telling us with the limited communication abilities humans have.
saimen@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
Well said. As a doctor I am just worried that sometimes it might not be what they really want. Obviously, people often want and do what is not best for them due to psychological “distortions”.