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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>: People who suffer from the delusion that they are "really"
the opposite <BR>: sex are at no more risk of suicide than mentally ill
people laboring under <BR>: any other delusion. Any surgeon who
plays along with this form of mental <BR>: illness by surgically altering
a perfectly healthy person is committing a <BR>: horrendous
crime...[--TK]<BR><BR>Obviously, the Tzitz Eliezer disagrees. Also, the rest of
your paragraph<BR>does not follow from the first sentence. Any mentally ill
person who<BR>was suicidal who could be saved through a mutilating surgery,
perhaps<BR>because the risk of waiting for therapy to work is too greater, I
would<BR>think would be the same din.<BR><BR>Tir'u
baTov!<BR>-Micha<BR></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"><B>--Toby Katz<BR>==========<BR><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0 color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"></B>--------------------</FONT></DIV></DIV>
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