Slave Like Acquiescence to the GID Diagnosis
http://womenborntranssexual.com/2009/09/07/slave-like-acquiescence-to-the-gid-diagnosis/by Suzan
9/7/09
Most of us never expected SRS to change us into totally different people with completely different life histories or prospects. We wanted to feel whole within our own skins. Any reasonable person would or should realize the absurdity of expecting even such a radically transformative process as sex reassignment surgery to erase the scars of childhoods filled with abuse and alienation.
But that is exactly what McHugh and the Meyers study set as the definition of a successful outcome. With the standard being conformity to a white, middle class heteronormative feminine mystique ideal. And they expected this at a point when feminism was cresting at the high point of the Second Wave. Most post-SRS women that I knew at that point were as caught up in the redefining of what it meant to be a woman in modern society as their assigned female at birth peers.
