Switching genders requires more than surgery

[Shana A]

Switching genders requires more than surgery
Dr. Loren Schechter, of Chicago Gender Group, helps patients look and feel like themselves

By Nancy A. Simon, Special to the Tribune
September 28, 2011

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-x-transgender-doctor-20110928,0,1047576.story

Dr. Loren Schechter thinks the surgery he performs to help people change genders is much more than a medical procedure.

It's the final result of a person's often torturous and years-long effort to have his or her body conform to the gender he or she feels, he said.

The work he does is really "gender confirmation" surgery, said Schechter. "We are not readjusting anything, really. We are making the body congruent with who they know they are," he said.

[Jasper]

I'm very glad that there are actually people who understand what SRS actually does for us.

[JenJen2011]

Right on!

[Jennie]

I agree, this is great to hear that there is someone outhere has the right thinking, he knows what it realy is.
Bravo.

Jennie

[lilacwoman]

GRS or SRS?   gender is inside sex is outside? the person's transitioning behaviour confirms gender, the surgery confirms the sex.

[Joandelynn]

the person's transitioning behaviour confirms gender, the surgery confirms the sex.

I agree, and I even would go a step further and say that I don't need to confirm my gender, I know pretty well what it is.

[lilacwoman]

if everyone sees you as the gender you think you are you will be accepted as that but lots of people claiming to be one of he two genders don't have the appropriate gender image then they get upset when they are wrongly sexed by the public.

at gender clinic a couple of years ago there were pseudo-ts's s->-bleeped-<-ing at the idea of the therapist teaching them to walk like women but walking behind them down the street it was obvious the people were reading them as flat footed, pot bellied blokes in trousers not as women while my skirt and heels made me invisible except to guys sneaking looks at my figure.

Regarding the link of Dr Schechter, here in UK/Europe there are laws stating countries have to provide surgery of make the body match the inner person's gender.
This shows that non-ops aren't ts unless there are medical/financial reasons why surgery may never happen.