(31-05-2014, 09:06 PM)MissC Wrote: I am willing to listen, and to change my mind... IF anyone can present a logical case. But I suspect all I'm going to hear is some whining about the "tone" of the thread, which is code for "I don't have a response to that."
OK, I'll try, briefly.
In Britain, the formula in inquests into suicides certainly used to be that the victim took their life while the balance of their mind was disturbed. There seems to me to be just as much justification for a publicly funded health service to treat conditions likely to lead to such disturbance of the mind as there is for treating any other mental illness. While gender variance is not a disease, the severe dysphoria that it can cause is a mental disorder and is deserving of treatment. Are you suggesting that all the suicides that you refer to in your post were themselves solely responsible for the states of mind that led to them taking their own lives, because that is not in accordance with your own accounts of them? They were as deserving of any relevant medical or psychiatric help available as anyone else.