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Many detransitioners are raising the concerns about the psychological effects of more and more surgery on young people to actualize their true selves. This is counter to the prevailing narrative that every surgery that a young person might have is reversible down the line through more surgery.

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I honestly think that people in the future are going to view gender reassignment surgeries in the same way that we view FGM today. There doesn’t seem to be any possible evidential basis for gender reassignment surgery on non-intersex individuals, compared to the alternative of non-surgical intervention, and it seems that it should be considered unethical for surgeons to offer it.

I’ve always read that it was the best treatment option. Do you have studies that say otherwise?

> This is counter to the prevailing narrative that every surgery that a young person might have is reversible down the line through more surgery.

Indeed and it's a very harmful narrative even without detransitioner concerns. Once you've had your breasts lopped off, or womb removed, or - if male - penis and scrotum fashioned into a pelvic cavity, no amount of further surgery can reverse this. Those organs are gone permanently.

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