Transgender Bender: Surgery to Woman, Then Man Again
Transgender Women Say Transition Before Irrevocable Sex Change Is Fraught With Psychological Hurdles
By SUSAN DONALDSON JAMES
Nov. 10, 2010
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MindMoodResourceCenter/charles-kane-transgender-woman-back-man-surgery/story?id=12095720"For all intents and purposes we were perfect, but many of us know from a young age that something is different, odd, we had been miscast in life," said Donna Rose, who used to be David.
"I wanted the life I had built, but I wanted me to be in it, rather than the person portrayed to the rest of the world," said Rose, now 51 and living as a transgender woman in Harrisburg, Pa.
But just before she was to have sex reassignment surgery in 1999, Rose panicked and returned to her life as a man.
