Everyone should know that surgery should be the last option one goes to. The risks and costs are daunting for any surgery. If surgery is deemed to be necessary, then one has to do their homework in vetting their surgeon, and even more so with "elective" surgeries that are far from elective for many.
My read on the article was that a teaching opportunity stressing the need to be thorough to his audience has been taken out of context and turned into clickbait for the neanderthals' that believe gender care is a fad.....fucking dinosaurs......
Those that fall outside of the binary world are the end targets of this crap these bigots want to perpetuate. "Convincing" those easily led to believe that it is true because it is a "news" article into treating someone as less than because they happen to be different.