The risks and advantages of medicalization of transgender for society and for transgender individuals include the fact that gender variant to receive medical treatment, they have to undergo the ordeal of validating their identity to everyone else in order to “make sure” that this is what the person really wants. Although the intention may good behind this actually it is very harmful to many people. Not only is it harmful to those who do not identify within the binary gendered system or do not have the stereotypical, it is harmful to those who do have those experiences as well. However, the benefits of medicalization include the fact that; as a nation, we get the number of transgenders in the country especially when it is done at birth only; hence health issues after birth are easy to address.
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