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for once, unlike most of posts you've gotten so far, because it's an interesting thing to think about. Anyway, the main thing that makes them different is that with sexual surgeries there's a conscious act of identification. The modifications that come with things like adding or removing other body parts are ornamental at least, and ceremonial at most. To be clear, the guy probably doesn't identify himself as being the Red Skull given flesh, while a transexual surgery seeker self-identifies as a different gender. While it seems that the bulk of your post wasn't really properly evaluated because of one angle, you're right that genital modification is incredibly extreme-as it should be, considering the sort of personal clarity that should go into making a decision to go forth with it. But to get back to your initial question, unfortunately society isn't socially evolved as a whole to not consider either of your specified cases as "normal." Both of these people are considered freaks in some fashion, but I'd venture to say that post-op transexuals have it worse because when you put horns on your head or have your tongue forked, you don't carry the silly (and highly inaccurate) social stigma that comes along with still being seen as a man that likes men and opted to become a woman, and vice versa; by definition, such a transformation isn't about what someone thinks and feels about others as much as it about how that person feels about themselves, and who they truly are.
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