I had NHS sex swap to be a woman..now I’m 75 I want them to put my tackle back

[Shana A]

I had NHS sex swap to be a woman..now I'm 75 I want them to put my tackle back
Mixed-up dad's op plea

By ANDREW PARKER
Published: 11 hrs ago

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4575814/Sex-swap-dad-Gary-Norton-wants-to-be-a-man-again-regret-operation-reversed-RAF-veteran.html

A SEX-swap dad told yesterday how he boobed by becoming a woman 23 years ago — and begged the NHS to give him his tackle back.

RAF veteran Gary Norton — now 75 — moaned: "I now realise inside I'm a red-blooded man and always have been.

"I want a physical relationship with a woman but I've got no equipment — it all went in the op. It's one heck of a mistake to make."

The father of four, who changed his name to Gillian after his wife and kids disowned him, tried dating fellas but said he never fancied them.

He has now quit taking the female hormones that stopped his beard growing — and is on a waiting list to have the breasts the drugs gave him removed. Gary, of Coventry, is pleading with local health chiefs to go the whole hog and fund a full gender reversal op. They have refused.

[justmeinoz]

Yer pays yer money and ya makes yer choices mate.  Bit late now, and at 75 I don't think many surgeons would do it even if it was possible.  Accept responsibility for my own actions is my #1 rule.  He should do the same.

[Isabelle]

What the actual?

[AbraCadabra]

If nothing else about this sad mixed-up tackle story... it will make therapists even wearier and play 'gate-keeper'...

That is what I should expect to come from it.

What a fool-thing to happen – and all because he doesn't like fellas? How odd!

Axélle

[Elsa]

Poor guy, I feel sad for him.

But this is going to set trans folk back sometime and make things difficult for some people who genuinely need SRS, HRT, laser and therapy.

This is precisely why we need to be certain of what we want before it's too late.
And is going to be fuel for those who are against transition.

[big kim]

Accept responsibility for your own decisions no one made you have the operation. Be a lesbian I had a few girlfriends as well as boyfriends.Its people like this that make life difficult for other transexuals anyone reading this will think we're all weirdos.

[Devlyn]

I don't feel this sets anyone back. People can figure out a "sex change operation". It's wanting to go back that has everyone scratching their heads.

[AbraCadabra]

I don't feel this sets anyone back. People can figure out a "sex change operation". It's wanting to go back that has everyone scratching their heads.

De-transition with NHS benefits? Hum.

Axxx

[Nicolette]

These are the type of people who try to sue doctors, want SRS banned and label all TSs insane, to shirk all responsibility. Much like that Charles Kane. Being transgender and homophobic complicates matters further. The general pubic, those who are bigoted, love these stories because it reinforces their views.

[Padma]

At least The Sun is printing more stories these days of happy trans people, at last. It's still all sensationalism, though. And it's interesting how being trans is now so normal (relative to some years ago) that it's no longer in itself newsworthy, it's got to be "trans - and xyz!!!"

[Naturally Blonde]

I would be intererested to know who referred him for surgery and was it the NHS Charing Cross GIC? If so he could actually sue the NHS for psychiatric mis-diagnosis as was the case against private psychiatrist Russell Reid made by Charles Kane in 2006.

[Beth Andrea]

I remember reading somewhere that 1% or so or SRS cases end up regretting the event. Pretty low odds imho. He's just one of those 1%, even if he did take 23 years to get there.

[Shantel]

What an insipid moron! 

[Naturally Blonde]

I remember reading somewhere that 1% or so or SRS cases end up regretting the event. Pretty low odds imho. He's just one of those 1%, even if he did take 23 years to get there.

I would say it's a lot higher percent than that who have regrets. I know two cases who went through the U.K NHS system that reverted back for different reasons.

[Kitteh Engimeer]

Nobody takes tabloids seriously, right? They're written to be sensationalist. You can generally count on gross exaggerations.

[Shantel]

Oh sure, there are more than a few who have had regrets, but once you've been sliced and diced and your willy is whacked, it's a done deal, over finis! There are no redo's, so the best thing she can do is shut up and buckle up and finish up as best as possible and not make an international circus out of her "poor me" situation to the detriment of the rest of us in the eyes of the world.

[Stranger]

RAF veteran Gary Norton — now 75 — moaned: "I now realise inside I'm a red-blooded man and always have been.

"I want a physical relationship with a woman but I've got no equipment — it all went in the op. It's one heck of a mistake to make."

These quotes are surreal. Can anyone who has gone through sexual reassignment really be so sheltered as to not realise that physical relationships don't have to involve the traditional old in-out? That women can have physical relationships without the "equipment"? And this might just be me, but how does somebody who once identified as female use, without a trace of irony, the phrase "red-blooded man?" I've never heard that one dropped anymore except by the crustiest of crusty old misogynists.

Perhaps it's the tabloid retelling. I remember once being sprung by a local rag on the street and asked a few questions for a street poll. What they printed and what I said bore only the most passing resemblance, in no small part because they'd simplified my words down to a third-grade reading level.

[Arch]

I would say it's a lot higher percent than that who have regrets. I know two cases who went through the U.K NHS system that reverted back for different reasons.

It's all anecdotal. I probably know about a hundred trans people IRL (men and women), and so far, not a single one has expressed regret. Of course, I don't talk to all of them on a regular basis...

[Kelli]

*banging head on desk* 

[peky]

75 years old and has not learned about "personal responsibility," what a ding bat.

He is an ass, because he fully well knows that his statements will affect other TG folks negatively. He should have had the decency to keep his mouth shut.

I think this nincompoop is just doing for the attention.