Quote: Necratoid wrote:This is incorrect. As in, this opinion is not supported either by sceintific evidence or the personal anecdotes fo those (pre and post-op)
Even when they get the full surgery, it only makes them temporarily happy in the first place. There is always that little voice pointing out sure they act
like a girl/guy, have the look-a-like body of a girl/guy... but they still can have kids... in fact are less able then when they started this change. Even
when they figure out how fully grow fully functional dangly bits in jars and graft them in... they still aren't going to be happy. I predict they
aren't in fact going to be happy and end up spamming offspring trying to prove to themselves they are actually a guy/girl.
transgender individuals I know.
Really, it IS just as simple matter of "wrong plumbing and wrong hormones lead to immense psychological stress and disorder" and "fixing that
makes them better 99% of the time". It's something that isn't often brought up in anime fandom (because forcing a guy to act like a cute girl is
funny, see) but in the real world its a very serious medical problem. Now, people refusing to acknowledge your gender can also be stress-inducing, but really
no different than any other form of discrimination.
Having now read through the story I don't actually suspect the author is aware of these issues and dealing with them realistically, however. It's more
a "wouldn't it be funny if ranma was a psychopath?" kind of fanfic. I highly doubt the author has seriously thought about the issues involved.
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