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Title: EDITORIAL: Sex change is afoot College kids are switching more than their majors
Post by: Shana A on December 10, 2011, 08:46:20 AM
Post by: Shana A on December 10, 2011, 08:46:20 AM
EDITORIAL: Sex change is afoot
College kids are switching more than their majors
By THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Friday, December 9, 2011
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/dec/9/sex-change-is-afoot/ (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/dec/9/sex-change-is-afoot/)
Harvard University has announced that next year its campus insurance plan will cover the cost of "bottom surgery" for people undergoing "gender reassignment." Bottom surgery - the swapping out of the private parts - is often the last step taken by girls trying to become boys, and vice versa. Transgender activists hail this new coverage as a breakthrough for those purported to have "gender-identity disorder" (GID). They consider sex-change operations medically necessary treatment rather than an elective procedure as most insurance companies do.
In the name of being progressive, Harvard is choosing sides in a very controversial social, psychiatric and medical debate. According to a recent Swedish study tracking post-surgery mortality rates for "transsexuals," a sex change "is a unique intervention not only in psychiatry but in all of medicine." Solid information on long-term results is scant despite these radical procedures being conducted for over half a century. After following participants for 30 years, this study found that post-surgery transsexuals have higher rates of death, suicidal behavior and psychiatric morbidity (mental illness). This is hardly surprising.
College kids are switching more than their majors
By THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Friday, December 9, 2011
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/dec/9/sex-change-is-afoot/ (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/dec/9/sex-change-is-afoot/)
Harvard University has announced that next year its campus insurance plan will cover the cost of "bottom surgery" for people undergoing "gender reassignment." Bottom surgery - the swapping out of the private parts - is often the last step taken by girls trying to become boys, and vice versa. Transgender activists hail this new coverage as a breakthrough for those purported to have "gender-identity disorder" (GID). They consider sex-change operations medically necessary treatment rather than an elective procedure as most insurance companies do.
In the name of being progressive, Harvard is choosing sides in a very controversial social, psychiatric and medical debate. According to a recent Swedish study tracking post-surgery mortality rates for "transsexuals," a sex change "is a unique intervention not only in psychiatry but in all of medicine." Solid information on long-term results is scant despite these radical procedures being conducted for over half a century. After following participants for 30 years, this study found that post-surgery transsexuals have higher rates of death, suicidal behavior and psychiatric morbidity (mental illness). This is hardly surprising.