absintjente wrote:Sobbing wrote:
its not medically needed, you could say that these people also need ''neccessary and life bettering surgery'' to live as their true disabled selves
plastic surgery is mutilating, self harm is mutilating, so is removing a limb or genitalia, doesn't matter the purpose of it, that's just my opinion of it
and i am not talking about the people who undergo surgery to remove limbs. although, they are very obviously severely mentally ill to a degree that you perhaps should show some kindness on grounds of them being, well, severely mentally ill.
i am talking about the trans people you are comparing them to.
in their post, azriel said: "i dont think its the same as transsexuality, mentally maybe a little but the outcome is very different", to which you responded that "both go through with mutilating themselves"
but you obviously have a very strict definition of mutilation, because rather few would define plastic surgery as mutilation, and a severe lack of understanding for rhetorics and how the words you choose have an impact.
also, whether or not you view it as mutilation or not, is completely irrelevant to gender affirming surgery it is life bettering or necessary, lol.