A young woman starves herself because she believes that she is fat despite the fact that her body is dangerously thin. Society demands that we intervene in a fashion that helps this young woman to bring her understanding into line with the reality of her body's condition.
A second young woman decides that she is really a man despite the fact that she is clearly, biologically a woman. In this case, society demands that we support her in her contrary to reality understanding of her body, we must pay for expensive hormone treatments and mutilating surgery in order to conform her bodily reality to the mental understanding she has of herself.
Discuss.
A second young woman decides that she is really a man despite the fact that she is clearly, biologically a woman. In this case, society demands that we support her in her contrary to reality understanding of her body, we must pay for expensive hormone treatments and mutilating surgery in order to conform her bodily reality to the mental understanding she has of herself.
Discuss.
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