Emma E8

Can someone please respond in good faith how medicalizing people with gender dysphoria affects society and costs the health system? There's so much to argue here, I merely offer a start: 1. Men (who are people) with GD might not "need to steal" but they often do violate women's boundaries, which reduces women's safety. This includes "passing" men; see WNBA. 2. People of both sexes with GD who are medicalized struggle to fit into society and society is under pressure to accommodate them at cost to said society. Male and female spaces are eroded, which has a social cost to everyone. Female protections are eroded and eliminated, which costs women significantly more than men. 3. Medicalizing people with gender dysphoria is expensive. Hormones and surgeries aren't one-and-done; they create patients for life. Many costly conditions are created by these treatments, which lead to continual additional treatments. Heart conditions, bone conditions, and other iatrogenic consequences are extremely common, as are psychiatric co-morbidities. There's no standard for when transition is "done"; see plastic surgery addiction. 4. Suicide rates increase AFTER medicalization. This is arguably bad for society but much worse for the patients themselves, which is another reason to question enabling them and the idea it causes no or less harm. Likewise addiction hurts the addict most, followed by family and friends and then society at large.