Transabled?

[firstfloor]

I think my point here, is that most rational people would try and deal with the psychological problems that a transabled person has, rather than see them have an arm or leg surgically removed. Deal with the psychological end, not the physical end. As I believe we should deal transgender people.

You are neglecting the right to personal autonomy.

[Cow Poke]

You are neglecting the right to personal autonomy.

Like you do to unborn babies?

[seer]

You are neglecting the right to personal autonomy.

Well first FF, wouldn't you rather see the transabled person made right mentally rather than by cutting off body parts? And wouldn't we want the same for transgender people? Second, you are free, pretty much, to do what you like - just don't ask me to pay for it, which will happen:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...n_5711267.html

[DLAbaoaqu]

And people wonder why I have such a pessimistic outlook on the human species in general.

[Jedidiah]

You are neglecting the right to personal autonomy.

If you want to cut off your arm that is okay with me. But as Seer points out the rest of us are expected to bear the financial burdens.

[Psychic Missile]

I think my point here, is that most rational people would try and deal with the psychological problems that a transabled person has, rather than see them have an arm or leg surgically removed. Deal with the psychological end, not the physical end. As I believe we should deal transgender people.

What if those psychological problems cannot be cured through therapy?

[Zymologist]

What if those psychological problems cannot be cured through therapy?

That's a difficult question.... It makes me wonder a couple things:

1. How could we know that for sure?
2. Are you admitting that these are psychological problems, not a case of someone being "born in the wrong body?" Because, if so...
3. The idea of, say, amputating a limb because the person's mind fails to recognize it properly is not correcting the problem, but rather accommodating it. Basically just masking it. In a very permanent way.

[firstfloor]

But as Seer points out the rest of us are expected to bear the financial burdens.

Not really. The money we pay in taxes is not our money so the cost to the treasury is not our burden as such and taxpayers have no direct say in how tax dollars are spent.

[Irate Canadian]

Like you do to unborn babies?

For the sarcastically impaired the following is said in jest

Cow Poke, don't you realize? It's perfectly fine to cut your hand off if you feel like it and the same goes for babies.

[Raphael]

What if those psychological problems cannot be cured through therapy?

Generally is someone is harming themselves we actually try avoid saying "let them keep at it if it they think it helps"

[Abigail]

I read a little while ago (so I can't remember the name of the chap) an article about a chap who has now undergone TWO sex change operations, first to become a woman, and then to become a man again.

He has a very similar story and reckons that generally people making the decision to do it shouldn't be.

I'll see if I can either remember his name or find the article

Yes, I remember that too and I think we are going to see a lot more of so-called 'reassigned' people wanting to change back because I think a lot of people are just used by the liberals who are driving their own cultural revolution.

[Jedidiah]

Not really. The money we pay in taxes is not our money so the cost to the treasury is not our burden as such and taxpayers have no direct say in how tax dollars are spent.

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[Jedidiah]

For the sarcastically impaired the following is said in jest

Cow Poke, don't you realize? It's perfectly fine to cut your hand off if you feel like it and the same goes for babies.

Why would a baby want to cut off Cow Poke's hand????

[Jedidiah]

I read a little while ago (so I can't remember the name of the chap) an article about a chap who has now undergone TWO sex change operations, first to become a woman, and then to become a man again.

He has a very similar story and reckons that generally people making the decision to do it shouldn't be.

I'll see if I can either remember his name or find the article

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...k-operate.html

[Raphael]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...k-operate.html

Similiar story, but I'm not certain it's the same chap....the photo does not look like the person I remember (but it was some years ago I read it, so I may well be mistaken)