The problem is that doctors have no way of knowing who will be healed and who will be harmed by it. “Well, I know this,” he told me. “That some people are satisfied and live happily ever after. And some, of course, get suicidal, depressed, and regretful. And nobody can tell the difference between the ones in the beginning that will and will not regret it.” Even Dr. McHugh’s critics admit that scientists have yet no reliable means of predicting who will be helped and who will be hurt by a gender surgery.
