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Hippiesq's avatar

This is what I wrote:

Medical interventions meant to make males appear female or females appear male are extreme cosmetic interventions performed on healthy bodies. These interventions, with their many known, and many unknown effects and side effects (including sterility, loss of sexual function, bone density issues, increased chance of stroke or heart attack, cancer, liver problems, etc., not to mention the many infections from the surgeries) are supposedly meant to address a mental illness known as "gender dysphoria." Gender dysphoria involves only a self-described feeling of being uncomfortable in one's body, with particular attention to one's primary and/or secondary sex characteristics. Young vulnerable people have many reasons they may be uncomfortable with their sex characteristics - and changing their bodies may not solve the problem, but will certainly create new problems in terms of health challenges.

This is a very delicate situation and it should not be rushed. Please slow down, look at the systematic reviews of the evidence (the various studies in connection with these medical interventions) performed by Finland, Sweden and the UK and perhaps perform your own such review before laying out guidelines that may not help anyone. And please consider the detransitioners' voices before you act. In medicine, "First Do No Harm" is the guiding principal. Please adhere to it.

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Paving the Way's avatar

The WHO has no standing to set any clinical guidelines for any health processional anywhere. It does not make sense to me to play on their field. They also happen to be a criminal organization.

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