If your child “needed” an extra arm..,

[Hammster]

EDIT: I edited the OP because some were deliberately “misunderstanding” the original OP.

If your child, with two healthy arms, came to you and said they felt they needed a third arm, would you support surgery to have an arm attached?

 

[Astrid]

If your child came to you and said they had an extra arm because they felt that they should only have one arm, would you support surgery to have an arm removed?

Depends.

 

[Hammster]

Depends.

On what?

 

[MehGuy]

Yeah, time to get the ol' hacksaw out.

 

[jayem]

It’s likely that there is a common neurophysiological variant causing both gender dysphoria and BID (Body Integrity Dysphoria.) The linked study indicated that BID patients, compared to a control group, were less likely to identify with their anatomical sex. But BID is worse. Affected persons will self mutilate themselves in order to force amputation of whatever limb they believe is foreign. An intense desire to be paraplegic is another variation. So in answer to the OP, elective limb amputation may sometimes be necessary to prevent a worse outcome. Just as gender confirmation medication and surgery can be necessary.

How Defined Is Gender Identity in People with Body Integrity Dysphoria? - PubMed

And here’s an article on BID:

What Is Body Integrity Identity Disorder?

 

[Hammster]

It’s likely that there is a common neurophysiological variant causing both gender dysphoria and BID (Body Integrity Dysphoria.) The linked study indicated that BID patients, compared to a control group, were less likely to identify with their anatomical sex. But BID is worse. Affected persons will self mutilate themselves in order to force amputation of whatever limb they believe is foreign. An intense desire to be paraplegic is another variation. So in answer to the OP, elective limb amputation may sometimes be necessary to prevent a worse outcome. Just as gender confirmation medication and surgery can be necessary.

How Defined Is Gender Identity in People with Body Integrity Dysphoria? - PubMed

And here’s an article on BID:

What Is Body Integrity Identity Disorder?

 

[Gregory Thompson]

You know, for a time, I had identity dysphoria. It was really just a lot of occult energy bombarding me. It took forever to get rid of that.

 

[Hans Blaster]

It depends on if it is the left or the right. If it was the left that the child thinks isn't real, then it should be removed as the left arm is sinister.

 

[BeyondET]

If your child came to you and said they had an extra arm because they felt that they should only have one arm, would you support surgery to have an arm removed?

I'd say they came in a pair so they got to be removed as a pair, can't just take one and not the other.

 

[Nithavela]

And here I thought this was an interesting thread about three armed children.

But nooooo

 

[Hazelelponi]

If your child came to you and said they had an extra arm because they felt that they should only have one arm, would you support surgery to have an arm removed?

No... I wouldn't.

 

[Larniavc]

If your child came to you and said they had an extra arm because they felt that they should only have one arm, would you support surgery to have an arm removed?

Depends on why.

 

[Larniavc]

It depends on if it is the left or the right. If it was the left that the child thinks isn't real, then it should be removed as the left arm is sinister.

Left handed snips-whispers are a plague on all of our houses.

 

[Hammster]

And here I thought this was an interesting thread about three armed children.

But nooooo

Why does that matter? An extra arm is an extra arm, regardless of how many you are born with.

 

[Hammster]

Depends on why.

Mkay.

 

[durangodawood]

If your child came to you and said they had an extra arm because they felt that they should only have one arm, would you support surgery to have an arm removed?

What would that help?

 

[Hans Blaster]

What would that help?

It would depend on if the extra arm removal was a hackneyed analogy for sex reassignment surgery or not.

 

[durangodawood]

It would depend on if the extra arm removal was a hackneyed analogy for sex reassignment surgery or not.

Im going to assume not. So I'd like to pursue the question of arm removal on its own terms.

 

[Daniel Marsh]

I will take the child to a psychologist.

 

[Neutral Observer]

If your child came to you and said they had an extra arm because they felt that they should only have one arm, would you support surgery to have an arm removed?

I assume that you're against it, yet the bible advocates doing just that.

Matthew 18:8-9 KJV

8 Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire. 9 And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.