We don't live in a dictatorship of the majority, so it doesn't matter the size of the population, it is meaningless to point out if it is 1% of the population or 50%. Also, the best way to solve an issue that affects such a "small minority" is to just give them the rights and allow them to do as they please.

As if it merits a national discussion, well, you are discussing so to you it looks like it merits, if it did not you would not invest time into it would you? But again, we don't live in a dictatorship of the majority, so the minorities are allowed to express and talk freely. Do you think they should be silenced?

If it was a good choice they will appreciate, if it was a wrong choice, well, it was a small minority, so it doesn't matter.

You seem to care and you are contributing to make the topic go on. You can't make a conversation stop by talking about it, that is not how politics work, by arguing you are contributing to the dialectic, either by proposing a thesis or an antithesis.

Now yes, I am sure politicians use this topic to divide people so I stand by the simplest solution that benefits most people and makes the most progress. To me the simplest solution is to just allow them to talk and discuss. Ideas need time to mature. They might reach wrong and bad conclusions but that has happened over and over throughout human history, we push humanity forward by making mistakes.

In the anedocte about my country, the mistake was exactly to oppose gender politics so fiercely, by using hate against gender politics an insane president was elected. People chose that everything was worth it to fight gender politics, they thought any price was worth it paying to fight it, and that lead us down a hole we might never recover from. So between silencing those voices or allowing them to make noises, I wish I could go back in time and make people choose to allow those voices because we are not a dictatorship.

If it is wrong let them make mistakes and learn. We already made a mistake to elect a madman that promissed to fight gender politics and it destroyed a nation.

But yeah, if they are such a small minority, just allowing them to do as they please should not be a problem at all. I still believe that any aesthetic surgery should be proceeded by psychological assitance, but other than that, I don't think there is much to talk.

In the end, if it is worth an academia doctorate, I am not a doctor from any field regarding humanities, so I literally have no base to take a stand on that regard. The academia is not a place to do what me or you or anyone want, it is a place to discuss new things, regardless if taboo or not. If a thesis is well done and the doctors and member think it is worth a doctorate, I can't oppose. If you can you are, I believe, more than welcome to do your research and publish your papers. I am not qualified or knowledgeable about that topic to go that far.