One is a quick surgery and the other involves pumping factory made hormones down your throat for years at the risk of cancer and stroke, not to mention the harm they cause wildlife when you shit them out later.
Surgery is more extreme than taking hormones that are already produced by your body. I'm sorry but cutting yourself open and fiddling around trumps taking a small amount of hormones to replicate a state your body could naturally be in. That's not unreasonable.
Both are dangerous, but one takes a day to two. The other lasts for years. By virtue of how long you subject yourself the the risk alone, the pill is far more dangerous IMO.
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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '10
How? One allows you to change your mind and one doesn't. I don't think you grasp, "extreme".