I’m looking for examples for something I’m writing. Trans people are diagnosed as trans based on not much more than their say-so. There are no lab tests, MRIs, CT or X-rays to diagnose it. I don’t think there’s any other medical field in which they cut off your testicles, uterus or any other organ because of the patient’s decision alone.
You can rule out cosmetic surgeries as an example, because trans surgeries aren’t just cosmetics - a double mastectomy isn’t just a breast reduction, for example.
My understanding is that psychiatric surgeries have gone mostly out of style, and while might be performed in some countries still, they’re a very rare edge case.
Thanks.
Just to clarify, you're talking about physical medical alterations being allowed to be done to "treat" a psychological diagnosis (or self-diagnosis?)?
The closest I can think of is mood disorders being treated by given mood stabilizers or other pills, and that's not even in the same ballpark. There are body integrity identity disorder (BIID) patients who seek out amputations, but I don't know if this is necessarily done as treatment.
[Edit: Lmao great: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19132621/#:~:text=The%20term%20body%20integrity%20identity,transection%20of%20their%20spinal%20cord.
So why in the fresh hell are we allowing people who desire the removal or changing of healthy sexual characteristics go undoubted and to mutilate themselves? Where is the same ethical controversy? Do trans people really have autonomy? Do they really not have a neuropsychological disturbance?