Depression Be Gone- How My First Step In My Gender Change Altered My Life
09/06/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire
http://lezgetreal.com/2010/09/depression-be-gone-how-my-first-step-in-my-gender-change-altered-my-life/Today is Labor Day, and as anyone who follows the news cycle knows, unless there is something huge happening, the news tends to be pretty quiet. I thought I would take the opportunity to write about my personal experiences since my surgery on 17 August. I have already written one piece since I had the surgery, but I figured that I would discuss something a bit broader and a bit more salient to how things are going.
To begin with, on 17 August, I had a bilateral scrotal orchiiectomy. That is fancy talk for I had my testicles removed. I was surgically castrated. Now, my doctor did this particular surgery because of the pain I have been in physically. Since I started hormone replacement therapy, my testicles were swelling badly and causing major problems. Typically, this surgery happens later, and there are reasons that not all surgeons are willing to perform this procedure on someone making the transition from male to female that are not rooted in any bias towards transsexuals or intersexuals.
