I just finished reading the third edition of Frank Turek’s “Correct, Not Politically Correct: About Same-Sex Marriage and Transgenderism”. The book talks about the effects of taking drugs and undergoing surgeries to deny your biological sex. It costs a lot of money. It creates chronic pain. It requires continuous visits to the doctors ($$$ for them). And there’s higher risk of self-ending.

Here’s the latest study published in the peer-reviewed journal American Urological Association. They don’t like people quoting their web site, so I had to look for a mainstream news report about it.

The Daily Caller reported on the study:

The suicide rate for men identifying as transgender women in California doubled among those who receive vaginoplasty, a new study found.

More than twice as many men who identify as transgender women had attempted suicide after receiving the surgery when compared to those who had not undergone the procedure, according to AUA Journals.

If you don’t know what a vaginoplasty is, Daily Caller had a helpful blurb about it:

Vaginoplasty “involves the removal of a man’s penis, testicles and scrotum” to sculpt a “feminine-appearing” vaginal canal and vulva, according to John Hopkins Medicine.

Basically, the idea is to create the appearance of being the opposite sex. But these are not as sensitive as the real things, they require constant painful and expensive maintenance, and they are expensive. We are all paying for these procedures, when our health insurance goes up to pay for the people who are getting them.

More:

“Rates of psychiatric emergencies are high both before and after [surgery]. Although both the phalloplasty and vaginoplasty patients have similar overall rates of psychiatric encounters, suicide attempts are more common in the [latter]. In fact, our observed rate of suicide attempts in the phalloplasty group is actually similar to the general population, while the vaginoplasty group’s rate is more than double that of the general population. Patients undergoing [vaginoplasty] with a history of prior psychiatric emergencies or feminizing transition are at a higher risk and should be counseled appropriately,” study authors concluded.

Why is the suicide rate higher for men? I think I have the answer. Men seem to enjoy and desire sex more than women. I think the men are surprised and confused that the thing that looks like a woman’s vagina doesn’t actually work to produce sexual pleasure.

Now, when I go to buy a car, I don’t do it on the basis of feelings. I do it on the basis of user reviews, long-term driving evaluations, warranty ratings, etc. I cannot imagine how blind a person would have to be to chop off a functioning reproduction organ and think that they will be able to enjoy sex as much as they could before. And I can’t imagine why the doctors would go along with it, except that they want lots of insurance company money. And why don’t the insurance companies stop it? Oh, because they just raise the premiums of the other people who use health care responsibly.