Real doctors tell people the truth regardsless of who gets furious. pic.twitter.com/mKkmCzUJz1
— Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis (@DrLoupis) May 5, 2023
I’d rewrite that headline to say Stupid People Furious! Well, that’s a little harsh. Let’s change it to Uninformed People Furious!
Let me start my saying that I’ve had a couple of cancerous skin lesions removed, and because the removal was medically necessary, the cost of the removal was covered by my health insurance.
I’ve also had a couple of benign lesions removed just because I thought they were unsightly. Those removals were not medically necessary so I had to pay for their removal myself.
People identifying as transgender don’t want to pay for puberty blockers and hormone treatments and surgeries out of their own pocket so what we came up with is “gender dysphoria,” a mental disorder. Now everything becomes medically necessary and can be billed to health insurance.
Some people don’t like that “gender dysphoria” implies some sort of pathology. They’ll say “No it’s not a pathology, it’s just a diagnosis.” If it’s “just a diagnosis,” why are we amputating people’s breasts and genitals?
And if “gender dysphoria” is an objective reality, I still question why are we amputating breasts and genitals? Since we stopped doing frontal lobotomies, I’m not aware of any mental health condition that’s treated with surgery.
Here’s a doctor perhaps saying it a little better and more authoritatively because he’s a doctor and I’m not:
What Dr Patrick Lappert said… pic.twitter.com/UQbXSWTPe6
— Lucy Riles (@LucyRiles) March 21, 2023
“Transitioning” does not have a 100 percent success rate, however you define that. Some people transition and find themselves no happier than they were before, just the same people with the same problems. Some people are even less happy than they were before and go so far as to detransition back to their original sex.
I’ve never heard of a lobotomy patient expressing dissatisfaction with the surgery or asking to have it undone.