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 "It's
not something for somebody in their 40s to do, someone who's had a
life as a man, - - - If you're 18 or 20 and never had the kind of
(advantages) I had, and you're
oriented in that direction, sure, go ahead and make right what
nature didn't. But if you're a 45-year-old man and you're an airline
pilot and you have an ex-wife and three adolescent kids, you better
get on Thorazine or Zoloft or Prozac or get locked up or do whatever
it takes to keep you from being allowed to do something like
this.'' - Renée Richards (Associated Press, Feb. 1999)
Click on the links below
to read the entire article.
Sex
changes are not effective, say researchers There is no conclusive evidence that sex change
operations improve the lives of transsexuals, with many people
remaining severely distressed and even suicidal after the operation,
according to a medical review conducted exclusively for Guardian
Weekend tomorrow.
The review of more than 100 international
medical studies of post-operative transsexuals by the University of
Birmingham's aggressive research intelligence facility (Arif) found
no robust scientific evidence that gender reassignment surgery is
clinically effective.
The
Sex-Change Charade Gender gymnastics are going on out
there. Transsexuals disenchanted with their chromosomal selves are
having parts lopped off or stitched on in attempts to change sexual
identity.
They hope to override male XY or female XX hardwiring – thinking
a newly configured appendage or cleft re-defines gender. And they
enlist a surgeon to mutilate the body accordingly.
These tortured souls don't need draconian measures to align their
physical exterior with confused gender suppositions – they need
psychological and spiritual truth that frees them to celebrate the
skin they're in.
Surgical Sex, by Paul McHugh the Vatican's advisor on
sexual matters, a member of the President's Council on
Bio-Ethics.
Paul McHugh, M.D. Henry Phipps Professor of
Psychiatry and former Director of the Department of Psychiatry and
Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine,
and Psychiatrist-in-chief of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. His
writings include Genes, Brain, and Behavior (1990) and
essays on assisted suicide and the misuse of psychiatry. Paul
McHugh is universally disliked by the transsexual
community.
Venus
Envy In a recent issue of a popular woman's magazine, there
was an article entitled, "Boys will be Girls." It told about the
effects of the feminist movement upon the gender confusion that
prevails in our society today.
Psychiatric
Misadventures, by Paul McHugh
About Gender Identity
Disorder
About
Gender Dysphoria
Chemicals
and the Brain - Part 1
Chemicals
and the Brain - Part 2
Support Sites for
Transsexuals - Education for Family and Friends
The Transsexual Point of
View
More Transsexual Point of
View
Transsexual
Roadmap
Transsexuals - Life From
Both Sides Link to a book that supports transsexual
life.
Passing
and Living in Fear
Bureaucratic
Hurdles to Overcome:
Transsexual
Results
Family Relationships
The author of this article really
has no idea why families have trouble readjusting to their
transsexual. The primary reason being there is no one to help
them through the transition.
Transgender:
Nature, Nurture and When It All Goes Awry
Unlike most men, Yosef Kirchner, 41, would love to be
able to shave every morning. He’d also like to become a husband and
a father. But for now, that dream is on hold.
Thanks to a series of painful “reassignment
surgeries” that took place 16 years ago, Kirchner looks like a woman
– with large breasts, curvy hips, high cheekbones and no visible
Adam’s apple. He also has a full set of female genitalia.
Things in Common
Among Transsexuals
by Jerry
Leach
Out of a sampling of 80 personal interviews
with full-time pre and post-operative transgendered males, the
things held in common by them are:
* A distant or absent
father-figure while growing up
* A very involved mother
*
Perfectionist tendencies that obstruct inner peace
* An inner
sense that his masculinity does not match that found in
others.
Be Very Very Sure
Before You Give Your Blessing FOR GRS
Sometimes it’s hard to be a woman, especially when you
used to be a man.
Sandra MacDougall - an ex-soldier formerly
known as Ian - took four years and £10,000 of NHS cash becoming a
woman.
But Sandra has revealed that she wishes she was still
male.
Family Pain
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