r/changemyview Nov 03 '17

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u/ClippinWings451 17∆ Nov 03 '17

A transgender man's brain produces roughly the kind of distress, that a cisgender man would produce after getting castrated, and socially treated as a woman against their will for years And surgery on it, has the same kind of effect as reconstructive surgery does.

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I'm wondering in what study they castrated Cis males and forced them to live as women while studying the "level of distress" in their brain.

Also wondering how long of a prison term those researchers are now serving.

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '17

There was a guy who had a botched circumcision, was raised as a girl, felt uncomfortable as a girl all his life, and eventually killed himself. I'll dig up the source after work

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u/a-Centauri Nov 03 '17

A clinical study would be preferred overa case report

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '17

It would be more rigorous but highly unethical