Gender Transition Surgeries in a Global Crisis
By John Stonestreet Published on April 4, 2020 • 8 Comments
A recent article in Vice described how certain “life-altering†surgeries had been deemed “non-essential†during this COVID-19 crisis. The author was talking about gender-transition surgeries, and worried that, “in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic trans communities … are being flooded with reports of postponed and canceled surgeries in the U.S., U.K., Spain, Thailand, and elsewhere, leading to enormous stress and disappointment on top of a global health crisis.â€
Despite what the article claims and largely takes for granted, the benefits of so called “gender-affirming†surgery (a strange name for a procedure that denies one’s biological sex) in order to treat gender dysphoria is strongly disputed. The best studies, as I described in a recent BreakPoint commentary, “found that medical transition was not the solution to the patients’ problems, especially in the case of male-to-female transitions.â€
https://stream.org/gender-transition-surgeries-in-global-crisis/
