[Avodah] Transgendering and Halachah

[T613K at aol.com]

: 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...[--TK]

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



>>>>>
 
 
It isn't a matter of "agreeing" or "disagreeing."    I am not  giving a 
halachic opinion with which he may agree or disagree.   He  gave a psak based 
on "facts" that turned out not to be factual.  It turns  out that transgender 
mutilation surgery does not in fact prevent suicide.   The risk of suicide 
in fact rises slightly after surgery.
 
--Toby Katz
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