Sorry if I missed another thread about this. Also, don't follow this Daily Mail link if you're of a sensitive disposition. I wouldn't want young children to see the pictures. I thought they were unpleasant and frightening, and I wouldn't be comfortable meeting someone who looked like this, because it's so extreme.
www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-7361427/Former-banker-spends-75-000-surgery-transspecies-reptilian.html
I think this story's of interest, though, as clearly the DM is having their cake and eating it here. The story is clickbait but they go along with the preferred pronouns (they/them) and so forth in the text. No attempt to give a clinician's view of what's gone on at all. No ethical dimension. No criticism of what's happening here at all. Quelle surprise.
It's about a 58yo American who used to be a banker. Born Richard Hernandez, now known as Tiamat Legion Medusa. Some very familiar features. Tough childhood. Says parents abandoned children in a snake-infested wood. Father's parents took the children in but grandfather was abusive. Tiamat was gay, tried to repress it, focused on career and did very well, married, had children, but then got HIV, progressed to AIDS (although fortunately that's now cured) and everything seems to have fallen apart. Huge amount of body modification has followed, some of it to make the body more female looking and/or less male, but now aiming also at being transspecies.
'I am a transspecies reptilian and I call myself a reptoid, being part human, part reptilian,' Tiamat wrote on their Facebook page.
I suppose extreme body modification can be argued to be nobody else's business if it isn't causing harm to anyone else. I find it unsettling and repellent, but maybe that's my problem. My main concern here is that the medical professionals involved seem to me to be taking advantage of a vulnerable and troubled person. Instead of taking the money and cutting off healthy body parts, why aren't doctors trying to provide psychological support?