The absurdity of sex change surgeries

The LGBT movement, the feminist movement and the academia in Western societies encourage people who do not feel comfortable with their biological sex to undergo sex change surgeries. There is widely silence on the catastrophic impacts of ‘sex change’ on the mind and body. 

Sex change surgeries promise to free the individual from mental problems caused by the feeling to be born in the wrong body. Feminist thinkers such as Judith Butler insist that gender is all about acting, and that there is no such real thing as gender. Anyone who can perform well enough the role of a female will be regarded as a woman, anyone performing well enough the role of a male will be regarded as a man, according to their absurd theories. In reality, however, a person who has changed his/her biological sex is seen as a transsexual, regardless of how good a performer he/she is. Even among the LGBT activists these people are not regarded as “real” men or women. This means that sex change surgeries cannot fulfil one’s desire to change their biological sex. I have never come across a study on the negative impacts of ‘sex change’, but I assume that in the long term most transsexual people continue suffering mentally after having been confronted with the reality of social gender borders. 

More devastating are the physical impacts of a sex change surgery. Clearly, sex change surgeries are a case of extensive bodily mutilation including genital mutilation. We know hardly anything about the long-term impacts of such mutilations which are combined with extreme hormone therapies. However, it is obvious that people whose genitals are removed and replaced by artificial ones, are not able anymore to enjoy sex properly. But this may be a less important issue compared to other physical problems which arise during and after the process of ‘sex change’. 

Like in many other cases, here too, we see the double standards of those who propagate “sex reassignment surgeries”. Most of the advocates of sex change surgeries are against female genital mutilation (FGM) practised by some African communities, though in comparison the latter is much less harmful than the former. And most of them criticise skin bleaching applied by a considerable number of people with darker skins around the world. When a black person feels uncomfortable with his race and wants to change it by bleaching himself, then the LGBTQ… supporters who are mostly anti-racist too, point out the health hazards of bleaching. They try to prevent people with darker skins from bleaching by arguing reasonably and by attacking the social causes of such feelings, namely, the ‘white dominance’ and the (historical) humiliation of non-white people by the white. Most of the advocates of sex change surgeries oppose beauty surgeries too, and try to attack its social causes, namely the beauty standards imposed by the ‘(white) male dominance’. But in the case of sex change surgeries none of them talks about the devastating impacts of such operations, and they forget to mention the social causes for hating your body. Suddenly, they come to believe that a medical intervention can solve a social problem.
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