Wednesday, October 21, 2009
The Pain of Being Born in the Wrong Body
http://mauro-paim.blogspot.com/2009/10/pain-of-being-born-in-wrong-body.htmlThe testimonies above are the gist of the suffering those born with Gender Identity Disorder, also known as transsexualism, go through. People born with this condition will only find peace of mind only after undergoing a difficult, painful and risky surgery to reassign their gender. The biggest challenge is to turn a penis into a working vagina and one that looks like a real one.
According to Psychiatrist Maria Inês Lobato, member of the multidisciplinary team of the Programa de Atendimento dos Transtornos de Identidade de Gênero (PROTIG) – Office for the Care of Gender Identity Disorders (OCGID) at the Hospital de Clínicas in Porto Alegre, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil: "The alteration of male genitalia, which is irrevocable, cannot be made under the slightest sign of discomfort. The request for the surgery by the patient must be shown to be genuine and surgeons have to make sure they are not just dealing with the erotic imaginations of an immature personality, but with a long-thought-of conviction that this is a real gender disorder."
