#2 2010-08-05 12:27:00
I have a young relative going through the same. I love him/her, a sweet young person. It takes some getting around, and allowing the ideas of gender to become more malleable can be a bit of a task.
They do seem happier now.
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#3 2010-08-05 12:37:58
Dmtdust wrote:
I have a young relative going through the same. I love him/her, a sweet young person. It takes some getting around, and allowing the ideas of gender to become more malleable can be a bit of a task.
They do seem happier now.
I understand completely what you're saying, but I've always wondered if addressing those peoples' needs with surgery is the right way. If somebody truly believed that their left arm didn't belong there, psychiatrists wouldn't just remove it. We do that with dicks, though. Which is the more extreme act, and would you rather lose?
I guess I'm worried that, in an effort to be empathetic, people are actually enabling self-destructive behavior.
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#4 2010-08-05 13:01:45
We haven't gotten to that state yet... I met Christine Jorgensen back in the late 60's at a party in Bel-Air, she seemed happy. I have met some profoundly unhappy post-op people.
The one great concern is that there was only 2 months of therapy before the meds. I think the therapist is a bit of an enabler; how can you you arrive at anything with 3-4 visits?
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#7 2010-08-05 22:26:51
Emmeran wrote:
This is where I get confused.
I have a cow-orker who took a manager outside to talk about his "serious" problem. When they got out the door he announced he was a woman trapped in a man's body. When I go back to work I know exactly what I'm announcing the first time a cocksuc, err manager, walks into the room. Thanks Em.
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