Sex change

How’s this for an interesting story? Today in Australia, a transsexual man, who believes he was wrongly advised to become a woman, has been given permission to sue the medical team which advised him to have the sex change. The doctors reportedly told the man that although he was a biological male, he had developed a female character identity.

Now, I feel bad for the guy that he had a sex change operation to become a female and is obviously unhappy with the results. But when it comes down to it, I don’t see how this is the fault of the doctors. Even if the doctors were wrong, the patient still has to listen to their opinion, decide whether or not he accepts it, and then make another major decision to have his reproductive organs removed.

The patient reportedly thinks he was falsely diagnosed after recently finding out about some personality testing in 1996 that showed he scored high on a masculinity scale. I just seriously doubt that if the patient knew this information that he would have decided against the operation, since it is so drastic that you really have to want that in order for doctors to go through with it. What say you?