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It is not transphobic to say the diagnosis has a history of low quality published research, continuing through to the present, and that politics and profit are the machines driving the "in the initial appointment" diagnoses. As well, the mental health field has done an extremely poor job of advising patients and their families how to deal with suicidal ideation ethically. It is unethical and immoral to promote the choice of suicide, exceptions being those with serious terminal illness. Dr. Ray Blanchard, the originator of the "2 years of crossdressing while keeping a job" Blanchard Protocols for the letter leading to surgeries said, "It's too disruptive to acknowledge that it is a sexual obsession." This means that back in his heyday, he felt no ethical quandary in telling the wives of crossdressing men that it was our duty to do sex role play "to keep the marriage together." As usual, actual women's voices were unheard.

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