Right. It's those slippery definitions and weasely "indications" that are the whole problem. We go from "it's life-saving surgery to remove this cancerous ovary" to "it's life-saving surgery to remove this pain-causing ovary, because otherwise a sequence of events may occur in which the patient becomes suicidal and/or has a bad pregnancy experience" to "it's life-saving surgery to remove this anxiety-causing ovary, because otherwise a sequence of events may occur in which the patient becomes so distressed at the possibility of a future pregnancy or menstrual cycles or the remote possibility of cancer that she spirals into a suicidal depression."
Just the facts, ma'am. This kind of elective removal of guts based on psychological worries clearly has no logical stopping point of its own, so stop it before it gets out the gate.
This is going to be a long read, so I'd appreciate if you read it in its entirity. If you'd like links, I can put together a doc file for you of everything.
If you manage to get pregnant with either pcos or endo, your chances of pre eclampsia go up astronomically. They're already high if you're fat, and it's difficult to lose weight with pcos. Not impossible by any means, but difficult.
Pre eclampsia is basically a mix of things like high blood pressure, risk of stroke to the baby and mother, risk of bleeding out which can happen even with blood transfusions, higher risk of diabetes, etc etc. Again, this is with just normal weighted people with either disease.
I agree with not letting someone just yeet a HEALTHY organ without some serious research before hand. HEALTHY.
That is not including endo and pcos, they cause actual, life threatening issues with pregnancy, yet you glossed over that entirely. Again, these are things DOCTORS have told me.
The main reason an average woman with a HEALTHY organ shouldn't is because of 3 things- you'll hit menopause immediately, you'll need estrogen shots if you have it young to both put that off and to prevent osteoporosis, and of course, any risk of any surgery, that includes wisdom teeth removal because yes, freak accidents with that surgery happens too. Are you also going to tell people to not get that too, because it can happen?
The main reason many of us are against trans men from getting surgery is because
-they are usually too mentally ill and rush it (see bpd behavior)
-they're too young
-nobody really warns them of the long term consequences.
I can promise you, I have heard every single risk when it comes to wanting to remove my uterus, which is why I won't, despite how badly I'd love to. There are women who are sat down and explained, every time we go in, "you should have at least 2 children first" despite, again, these disorders making it nearly impossible without fertility treatments. Endo causes scarring in the fallopian tubes that make it nearly impossible for an egg to properly get fertilized before dropping, and pcos makes you have a higher chance of the more dangerous kind of pregnancy, where it grows in the fallopian tubes. This is regarded as a false pregnancy as nothing can survive in that space, there is no place for blood vessels to connect and help develop a fetus, even if you did manage to move it to the uterus, it's essentially a tumor.
I'm not trying to bash or attack you, these are even things some women may not understand if they don't go through these issues or know anyone with it, but they're important to know.
You will likely never be questioned out the ass, criticized and infantalized for wanting to be snipped. A woman getting her tubes tied, something that doesn't remove anything except maybe a section of tubing, is often rejected unless you have two kids.
Do you actually think that's at all fair?
