kalkulat@lemmy.world to Health - Resources and discussion for everything health-related@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago‘Make your health insurance company cry’: One woman’s fight to turn the tables on insurerssfstandard.comexternal-linkmessage-square90fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
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minus-square4oreman@lemy.lollinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoI’d love to see the double blind white paper that quantitatively shows that. The thing is gender affirming surgery is for treating a mental state. That means it isn’t qualitatively different than other surgeries to treat mental states That doesn’t mean its bad, but it does mean its potentially dangerous, and counter-medicinal, unless carefully vetted and compared against nonsurgical treatments.
I’d love to see the double blind white paper that quantitatively shows that.
The thing is gender affirming surgery is for treating a mental state.
That means it isn’t qualitatively different than other surgeries to treat mental states
That doesn’t mean its bad, but it does mean its potentially dangerous, and counter-medicinal, unless carefully vetted and compared against nonsurgical treatments.