Rising number of youths undergoing sex change ops

[Chrissy64_uk]

KUWAIT CITY, March 1: The rising number of youths, who want to undergo or have undergone sex change operations, is one of the most difficult problems that the Juvenile Care Administration in the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor is currently facing, reports Al-Dar daily quoting director of the administration Abdullatif Al-Sinan.
Al-Sinan said the parents of these youths resorted to the administration after losing control of their children. He admitted it is very hard to deal with this group of youths and they need special facilities due to the different types of hormonal change medicines that they have taken, most of the time in large doses. He disclosed the administration has become a shelter for teenagers, especially girls, who have escaped from their families.
Criticizing the civil society groups for their lack of support to the administration, Al-Sinan pointed out this phenomenon requires strong coordination between the concerned institutions. He stressed the need for the implementation of comprehensive programs to educate the residents of the administration.

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[sylvia]

This seems to be not unusual in the Islamic world. In Iran it seems to be better a gender reassignment than be gay. Given it is unlikely that a woman cannot have the same fulfillment (social life, career etc) as in the West, there must be much more to Gender dysphoria than I for one has ever realised.

[Gillian S]

In acute gender dysphoria, the need to alter ones appearance and live in the opposite gender is so strong that all logic goes out of the window. It has to be done. Why do you think there are so many suicides, broken families and destitute TS. This happens here just as much as anywhere else. From personal experience, if I could take a magic pill to make me "normal" as my birth gender then I would take it. It makes no sense to any right thinking person but we still have to do it. We transition in the full knowledge of what it costs us in both emotion, friendship and with prospects in life. The need to be yourself can't be suppressed forever. To attempt to do so ends in sadness for those left behind.

Gillian.

[chrisfit]

I fully sympathise, with those that feel that reassignment and hormones are whats needed for them, but I am also concerned that it may not be always the best thing for certain individuals. The quick fix have a nose job, boob implants, route to happiness that goes on in the world around us, is I think not a healthy attitude for society. Apart from the dangers of surgery, my cousin having died after having liposuction, I feel far more should be done to guide, fragile individuals down the right path. I was a frightened teenager and adult, due to my cross dressing, and though at times, that the fact I wanted to dress in women's cloths, meant I might have to go down the Transition route, which quite frankly scared me.
I now am coming to terms with the human being I am, and being more excepting of myself, a male female mix! And there is nothing wrong with being that way.

[jackiejones]

I agree with you Chris.GRS is also granted far to easy i think,no Guarante pepole will be happy afterwards anyway!they may even regret it.More should be done to help avoid it if at all possible, and get to the root of peoples un happynes before the last resort of surgery.If surgery is the answer then i have no problems with that if it is the correct thing to do.But check and double check first.

Its a bit like when you go to the doctors not been able to sleep and they just send you away with sleeping pills rather than try and cure the problem.

I think most of us should do our best with the hand of cards we have been dealt in life that is the answer.

If you are TS then you will be wanting to transition in School and early life.It amazes me how many people decide they are TS later in life! sureley you know at an early age? i would have an age limit on the op.No point spending a fortune of NHS money for GRS when they could pop there clogs in a few years anyway! and they could die on the operating table as Chris rightly points out.

I do understand that in many cases you could not transition in the 1960s and 70s and it is only acceptable to do so now.
So i sympathise and can see a good case for GRS later in life in those circumstances.