Topic > Gender Reassignment Surgery: The Transgender Issue...

Many don't know the history of gender reassignment surgery and if they delve deeper into the issue, they may not like what they read which could prevent them to complete the surgery. Many said that changing sex did not solve anything and that in the beginning it was mainly a mental disorder and that the surgery caused them further problems. According to “Surgery solved nothing, it only masked and exacerbated deeper psychological problems” (Haverluck), Walt Heyer once said, “There is too much unhappiness among people who undergo surgery. Too many end up with suicide.” (Haverluck). Many think that changing their sex and appearance will change how they feel mentally, but in truth it brings more problems when they don't like what they see and feel after the surgery surgery, they are stuck with the anatomy they had changed because they couldn't have surgery to go back to the anatomy they were given at birth “Private surgeons stepped in to take their place without any oversight or accountability for their results, their practices have grown leaving behind shame, regret and suicide.” (Michael F. Haverluck had two sex changes and because he regretted his decision, it is very easy to think that something might help but in the long run it hurts more than that