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Should cometic surgery to 'affirm' someones gender be banned?

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happydappy2 · 02/06/2026 08:25

Should cosmetic surgery to 'affirm' someones gender identity be banned?
So things like males getting silicone implants (not including males requiring that after breast cancer.) Just silicone implants to give them a female shape. Males having having their sex organs removed-being made infertile. Mastectomies for females and the very risky phaloplasty....with hideous infection rates after the op. Again this operation renders them infertile...
This is not health care-this is harming otherwise healthy bodies....if we ban tongue splitting why not ban these types of operations as well?

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happydappy2 · 02/06/2026 08:40

I'm asking specifically about surgeries to try and change your sex.
Not nose jobs or butt lifts or jaw fillers.
Just the surgeries required as listed in my OP

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Ecstaticmotion · 02/06/2026 08:36

It isn’t solely trans people who get these procedures but also people not trying to change their perceived sex. Women getting nose jobs to reduce their noses are having gender affirming surgery. Women having breast implants are having it. Men having jaw filler are having it. etc. the problem here is not trans people but rather culture stereotypes about bodies and beauty - these harm and affect us all, regardless of trans or not.

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happydappy2 · 02/06/2026 08:36

MyThreeWords · 02/06/2026 08:34

Not sure why cosmetic surgery for cross-sex appearance should be treated differently in law from cosmetic surgery that is viewed as "sex appropriate". All of the hideous mutilating procedures that are flogged to men and women alike should be the subject of legislation insofar as they present a physical risk to patients, or a risk of unscrupulous money-grubbing practitioners, but left alone otherwise.

Why should a man getting fake breasts be treated differently from a woman altering the shape of her bum? The whole industry is disgusting and feeds on the obsessive ruminations of people who have whipped themselves up into irrationality by taking a deep dive into nonsense online trends.

It would seem verging on transphobia to ban certain cosmetic procedures and not others, just because they don't fit with the particular flavour of cosmetic manipulation you happen to endorse

I can't think of any other cosmetic surgery that takes away your reproductive ability....thats a fairly major side affect, to try and achieve something that is not possible

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happydappy2 · 02/06/2026 08:34

no the thread started yesterday is still up-someone suggested I should ask this question. I personally am baffled that Drs take an oath to do no harm and yet are carrying out these surgeries. interested to hear others views...

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MyThreeWords · 02/06/2026 08:34

Not sure why cosmetic surgery for cross-sex appearance should be treated differently in law from cosmetic surgery that is viewed as "sex appropriate". All of the hideous mutilating procedures that are flogged to men and women alike should be the subject of legislation insofar as they present a physical risk to patients, or a risk of unscrupulous money-grubbing practitioners, but left alone otherwise.

Why should a man getting fake breasts be treated differently from a woman altering the shape of her bum? The whole industry is disgusting and feeds on the obsessive ruminations of people who have whipped themselves up into irrationality by taking a deep dive into nonsense online trends.

It would seem verging on transphobia to ban certain cosmetic procedures and not others, just because they don't fit with the particular flavour of cosmetic manipulation you happen to endorse

pontefractals · 02/06/2026 08:31

Didn't you start a very similar thread yesterday, which got deleted? What are you looking for from this? I don't remember anyone here ever advocating for an outright ban on these surgeries on adults. Are you after screenshots, perhaps?

arethereanyleftatall · 02/06/2026 08:30

Yes. A man is a man. We should be able to see them coming.

SingleSexSpacesInSchools · 02/06/2026 08:28

You need a poll for banned on the NHS and banned in general.

the NHS should not be doing this

But bodily autonomy and freedom is very important to me.

I despise tattoos but I’d not ban them.

ask MN how to add an option of banned on NHS only

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