Understanding the transsexual journey

[Shana A]

Understanding the transsexual journey
By Walt Heyer - posted Friday, 2 December 2011

http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=12966

Transsexuals commit suicide nearly 10 times more than the general population. They struggle psychologically and emotionally with strong feelings and feel driven to change their appearance through extensive plastic surgery. They undergo months, even years, of hormone treatments and as the ultimate endpoint, they surgically rearrange their genitalia. Today some women you see about town are actually men and some who look like men are actually women. They are commonly referred to as gender variant, transsexual or transgender but they are all surgically simulated to look like genders they want to be. This is not the same as intersex, born with both male and female genitalia. This physical condition is not related in any way to transsexualism.

The media calls the transsexual surgical procedure "sex change surgery," but the term is misleading because it is impossible to change anyone's birth gender with cosmetic surgery and hormones. On paper, though, the change can be made with ease and in fact, that's the only place where sex change occurs, on birth certificates and driver's licenses.

Unfortunately, many regret the gender change years after the surgery, but you would never learn that from the media.

[Bishounen]

Him again?
Well, although he indeed have the right to speak out about caution, he is missusing it by only trying to make Sexchanges look as bad as possible, when it is really not the sexchange itself that is potentially bad, but that some people having the sexchanges haven't thought it through enoguh, hence risking regret later on.

So, there is nothing wrong with the surgery itself(If it is properly done by professional surgeons), but the problem is that it may not be the right road to happiness for everyone doing it.

[AmySmiles]

What an utter moron.  He is completely missing the point of the survey months back by associating the 41% suicide attempt rate with post-ops rather than closeted trans-people.  He bases most of his argument on his misinterpretation.  He also acts like chromosomes are the most important thing for determining sex, when in reality all they do is determine how the sex organs develop in utero.  Hormones determine how a body develops after birth, not chromosomes.

[Joelene9]

  DNA is good on solving crimes or to determine risk for certain diseases.  It is not a determining factor of perceived sex.  There are a lot of things that could go wrong in the womb that defies the DNA instruction.  One of them is the intersex condition.  The same things in the womb that causes the intersex condition may be responsible for the transgender conditions as well.  The fetal cells during that time are being assigned to be certain glands, brain, muscle, lung and so on.  The brain cells are beginning to get their instructions.  There are things that could go on here that could change those instructions.  This he did not state in his blog when he mentions the intersexuals. 
  Joelene

[Bishounen]

What an utter moron.  He is completely missing the point of the survey months back by associating the 41% suicide attempt rate with post-ops rather than closeted trans-people.  He bases most of his argument on his misinterpretation.  He also acts like chromosomes are the most important thing for determining sex, when in reality all they do is determine how the sex organs develop in utero.  Hormones determine how a body develops after birth, not chromosomes.

Probably no point in trying to tell him that, for according to Walt, all Transgenders are mad. 


Oh, by the way, he also has an account on Youtube(Not the above one), where he constantly have heated discussions with people. No wonder.