| Rath said: @Sqrl. Your post would only make sense if their was some method of removing the persons 'delusion'. As no such method exists to 'rehabillitate' them, the only plausible chance of happiness they have is to as you put it 'reaffirm the delusion'. If transgender disorder was in any way a temporary phase I would totally agree with you, the person should not have a sex change as they will agree with their physical body eventually. However as transgender disorder is extremely permanent there is no point not allowing them to live in the way they would prefer. You say that indulging their 'delusion' will cause them harm. How exactly? |
That is a pretty weak rebuttal. And again you get into a logical phallacy when you assume that because no method to remove the delusion exist that their never will be one.
Its this simple:
-They are by definition delusional.
-Delusional people should not be allowed to have cosmetic surgery for extremely obvious reasons.
Rationale to the contrary is rationalization of an irresponsible action. The motivation for that rationalization is somewhat of a mystery to me.
Either way I cannot see how permanently confining someone to their delusions is considered a cure in any way. The only thing it truly does is allow others around the person, who have deluded themselves into thinking it is a cure, the ability to rest easily. It would be like helping someone with multiple personality disorder kill off the real personality and allowing one of the invented personalities to take over simply because you didn't know how to bring the original one back into full control. But according to you its ok because at least then this alternate personality will be happy even though the real personality is confined and repressed to suffer in the back of the mind.
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