A painfully honest and disturbing editorial by Duke University PhD candidate Andrea Long Chu, a young man who longs to be a woman, recently appeared in the New York Times. Chu’s central thesis is that gender-dysphoric persons are entitled to surgery and that surgeons have an obligation to provide it regardless of their beliefs about what constitutes harm. In Chu’s skewed and revolutionary view, “surgery’s only prerequisite should be a simple demonstration of want…. [N]o amount of pain, anticipated or continuing, justifies its withholding.”
Chu, who has been taking estrogen and evidently had breast implants, is scheduled for “bottom” surgery on Thursday November 29 and in this pre-op editorial admits what many “trans”-identifying people likely wish he hadn’t:
