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A procedure performed to the standard of the medical specialty involved.
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And if this standard is a bad one?
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The love and companionship of the child.
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Does this love and companionship help pay the child support bills in
any way, shape, or form, though? Also, it is worth noting that a parent who wants to give up
all of his or her parental rights to a child certainly
doesn't want or expect
any love and companionship from this child.
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Then just remain celibate. Your sanity is then safe.
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No can do; after all, celibacy is certainly
no more acceptable to me than it is to pro-choice cis-women when pro-lifers give them this exact same advice!
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That you would even consider doing such things makes it even less likely you will find a doctor willing to castrate you.
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You mean just like "back-alley" abortions made doctors less willing to perform elective abortions?
Also, though, it appears that the writers of this article from a medical journal agree with me that performing surgical castrations on aspiring eunuchs in a safe, medical setting might very well result in less harm than would have otherwise been the case
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Voluntary Genital Ablations: Contrasting the Cutters and Their Clients
"According to American criminal law, the consent to bodily harm is not a valid defense against a charge of battery; however, this legal principle has sparked controversy [17]. The “mainstreaming” of body piercing indicates a relaxation of cultural attitudes toward consent to body harm, although the legal system does not appear to be changing to reflect current practice. The question of consent becomes more complicated in the context of our research because human castration is drastic, irreversible and, when performed by nonmedical professionals, carries a high risk of pain, infection, and even death by exsanguination. As such, to remove the risk associated with nonmedical surgeries, some have argued for the medical community to provide amputations of healthy limbs for individuals experiencing extreme xenomelia or body integrity identity disorder (see discussion in 18–20). We would extend this argument to genitals to encompass those individuals who seek a eunuch or “third gender” identity. It might be argued that the great difficulty in finding effective psychiatric counseling and medically qualified surgeons for this population may result in greater harm than an absolute adherence to the Hippocratic creed of “do no harm.” Within the community of eunuchs and those wishing to be castrated, who frequent the Eunuch Archive website, there is strong opposition both to self-castration and to the use of cutters. However, there are many discussions of “safer” ways to obtain castrations from surgeons. Some now inject toxins directly into the testicles in order to produce sufficient damage that a surgeon will perform an orchiectomy for damage control [21].
As with castrations for sexual reassignment, we favor standards of care for males with extreme castration ideations (i.e., the potential clients of the cutters) that would provide safe options beyond self-castration or seeking the service of cutters [2,10,14]. However, we do stress that the treatment of these individuals and the decision whether to perform the procedure should lie with the discretion and clinical judgment of treating physicians. Healthcare professionals must take individuals who disclose castration fantasies seriously, particularly if risk factors (e.g., history of sexual abuse, having been threatened with genital mutilation, and having witnessing animal castrations) are identified."
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Women who have had hysterectomies are still women. Most still have their ovaries and normal hormone levels until natural menopause.
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Yes, and? After all, I certainly
don't want to limit myself to women who have had hysterectomies. Indeed, I myself
always plan to either seek or be in an open (non-monogamous) relationship or in an open (non-monogamous) marriage.
(Also, Yes, I am certainly well-aware of the importance of condom use and regular STD tests in order to reduce the risk of catching STDs.
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I have never seen any pro-choice literature that addressed choice of male partner.
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I was talking about pro-lifers rather than about pro-choicers here, though.
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If your concern is an unwanted child, a woman who has had a hysterectomy is your ideal partner. Your rejection of the option just cements the opinion many of us have here that you just have a weird desire to get e castrated. The issue of an unwanted child is merely a smoke screen.
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Are you aware that even women with hysterectomies
can experience ectopic pregnancies and that ectopic pregnancies
are occasionally viable, Suzy?
Also, though, I certainly
don't want to either limit myself to one cis-woman or to abstain from penis-in-vagina sex with
all cis-women who did
not get hysterectomies and/or experience menopause yet. Indeed, would
you be willing to limit yourself to
only having sex with (literal) eunuchs, trans-men, and other cis-women for the
rest of your life, Suzy?
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By the way, using " female-bodied" instead of "woman" does not help your case.
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Actually, I was using trans-inclusive language here.
After all, a pre-transition trans-man has just as much of a female body as a cis-woman has.
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