Also, nowhere does the tzitz eliezer say it’s permitted “if someone feels the need for such a surgery” – thats just what liberal idiots have convinced you to think. He’s talking about genetic conditions, not delusional fantasies and mental health problems where a person thinks that they’re in the wrong body.
“when someone feels they need it,”
It’s a la’av of making oneself unable to have children, in the first place. That’s assur even for goyim.
What if someone “really feels” they need to eat treif? Is that a heter? you start out by saying that the TE says that he can marry if he sinned and did the operation, then you show your true intention by saying that the surgery isnt really all that bad, because “he feels he really needs it”
You’re hiding behind a posek has been exposed as nothing more than leftist garbage.
And for the record, the TE is not a “top notch posek” – he’s a posek, one of hundreds of the last generation, and not by any definition the gadol hador, or anywhere close to it. He was a valid posek, but was outclassed by dozens of gedolei olam. Honestly, if he did come up with this idea (which he didnt) he isn’t the kind of person one can follow blindly and claim to be a “toleh al beis din patur” – we’d just say he’s wrong and end the conversation.
He’s not the baal habayis of torah and we don’t create societal constructs and change marriage norms because of him. If, in the olam hadimyon, rav moshe feinstein, the chazon ish, rav elyashiv, rav shlomo zalman, or the like, would say this, then you’d be looking at the most controversial gadol hador since rav yaakov emden proposed pilagshim, but hundreds of times moreso.