Gender Transition Surgery.

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Jimbee68, Oct 4, 2024.

  1. Jimbee68

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    A recent Trump ad says that Kamala Harris supports gender transition surgery for all prisoners and immigrants in the US now. But like most things Trump says, that is a lie. She said she did in 2019 when she was running for president. But it's no longer part of her current platform, she says.

    But you know, gender transition surgery is considered just part of normal health care. Even conservatives used to say that in 70's, I remember, and up until the late 80's IIRC. Even the repressive Ayatollah Khomeini supported this transitional surgery when he took power in Iran in the 1979 Iranian Revolution. He tortured and killed hundreds of people. Homosexuality was punishable by death under him. It still is. In fact, Iran is currently one of the world's only jurisdictions to actively execute gay men.

    Alan L. Hart was the first American to undergo this surgery in 1917. Christine Jorgensen was an American actress and singer who became a transgender activist in the US in the early 50's, after her sex reassignment surgery in Denmark in 1952. People in the 1950's US remember her for her directness and polished wit when she discussed the subject.

    And BTW, despite what the far right says, gender dysphoric children do not have an absolute right to gender transition surgery. Unless their parents order it. But even then, the doctor will probably just opt for hormone blockers, which are reversible if the child changes his or her mind when they get older.
     
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    Yeah, people are criticizing Kamala Harris for thinking prisons should pay for inmates' sex changes. (Actually, she doesn't even seem to support that anymore, as I said.) Gender reassignment is a bona fide medical procedure. Maybe they should let you or your relative continue passing a kidney stone, if you ever end up there.

    And did you know they don't even let prisoners brush their teeth in most prisons in the US? What's the logic behind that?
     
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    And I know some people say the issue of Kamala Harris and sex reassignment surgery is a moral one too. But I don't know where you could go with that argument. Jehovah's Witnesses are morally opposed to blood transfusion. But they allow others to have them. And the radically conservative Ayatollah Khomeini thought it was an important medical right and procedure. Ethics only collides with medicine when anyone involved acts unethically. Not just when they need a medical procedure that you don't like.
     

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