It was significantly harder as a writer to research a subject before the 2000s than it is today. This is before Wikipedia and Google where researching a topic like this could take months and misinformation was harder to refute.

Maybe, unlike & most I grew-up & lived 28-years, before 2000. I totally disagree, go the other way, especially with misinformation. Example Wikipedia allows biased & Etc. people to take-out truth & put in their biased BLANK.

Look at how they did poor Chakotay.

Remind me who is that character?

I think Bashir is “lucky” not because the surgery didn’t have extreme side effects. He is lucky because his parents pushing him resulted in him being the type of person that society could accept. His trauma made him a people pleaser rather than a recluse or a hedonist or neurotic.

He freely admitted to that his parents has the resources to better scientist to do the procedures.