Transgender Patient Regrets Sex Change Surgery Nearly Thirty Years Later
Corinna Cohn, a biological male who had sex change surgery at 19 years old, described the regret that came decades later in a Washington Post opinion article Monday.
Anxiety, depression and same-sex attraction drove Cohn to undergo irreversible surgery early in life, according to the article. Cohn later felt regret about losing the ability to have children, becoming permanently dependent on medication and taking on health risks related to cross-sex hormones and reduced testosterone.
“As a teenager, I was repelled by the thought of having biological children,” Cohn wrote. “Years later, I was surprised by the pangs I felt as my friends and younger sister started families of their own.”
Young people are now able to get sex change surgeries quickly and without intensive psychological evaluations, Cohn explained, especially in light of professional pressure to “affirm” gender-confused young people through medical procedures.
I wrote a thing for WaPo today, and this is will be a thread on some accompanying thoughts related to pediatric transition, and hopefully this clarifies things for people who may have misunderstood my position.https://t.co/Kogcmflx6J
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“I shudder to think of how distorting today’s social media is for confused teenagers. I’m also alarmed by how readily authority figures facilitate transition,” Cohn wrote. (Read more from “Transgender Patient Regrets Sex Change Surgery Nearly Thirty Years Later” HERE)
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