[Avodah] Transgendering and Halachah

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 02:07:31AM -0400, T613K at aol.com wrote:
: People who suffer from the delusion that they are "really" the  opposite 
: sex are at no more risk of suicide than mentally ill people laboring  under 
: any other delusion.  Any surgeon who plays along with this form of  mental 
: illness by surgically altering a perfectly healthy person is committing a  
: horrendous crime...

Obviously, the Tzitz Eliezer disagrees. Also, the rest of your paragraph
does not follow from the first sentence. Any mentally ill person who
was suicidal who could be saved through a mutilating surgery, perhaps
because the risk of waiting for therapy to work is too greater, I would
think would be the same din.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha