I do agree, I'm just saying it's the best we have at the moment. It's fine to be critical of the treatment, but insulting everyone who goes through it doesn't help anyone. Not saying you do it, but lots of people in this thread are very hostile while claiming to care for the well being of those in transition. If they could learn to be happy in their biological gender that'd be great and I'm sure most transgender people would agree. Also, there's lots of older trans people that still look great, take a look at r/transtimelines

Science is clearly saying that there is currently no better treatment. It's definitely not ideal, but if you have no alternative, what are you going to do? I've asked you several times for suggestions, but you're just saying "no to sex change". OK, but what do you do with all these suicidal transgender people? There is an extremely low percentage of people who regret having done hormone replacement therapy and the majority of those is simply due to general low self esteem (they think they don't look as attractive as they'd like to). And why does it bother you so much anyway? It's their bodies and their decision what to do with them.

Disregarding your completely ignorant and baseless assumptions, what do you think would work better? Do you just want to euthanize everyone you deem to be weird? Do you think it's ok to let innocent people suffer because of your ideology? If neither emotions not science are "right", what is? Your own opinion?

Not sure if serious, but no, not necessarily.

So what do you propose? Do you think we haven't tried "curing" them with countless non-invasive methods? Psychotherapy simply doesn't work. It may help reduce an individual's depression, but the gender dysphoria simply doesn't disappear. Lots of transgender people would prefer not to undergo hormone treatment and especially gender reassignment surgery, but it's the only way to make them feel better.

It is likely correlated to the level of hormones the fetus was exposed to in the womb. That is not related to whether a person looks feminine or masculine however, the hormones responsible for that develop only during puberty. There's lots of information on it if you google for causes for transsexuality (including that r/science thread). Whatever it may be, there is (currently) no working cure, so it's very much like homosexuality. It doesn't really matter what you want to classify it as, the point is that there is no way to change a transsexual person, the most helpful thing is simply transition.

neurological abnormalities do not equal mental abnormalities. It's basically a physical developmental "error" in the brain and cannot be fixed. While mental disorders can potentially be fixed.