'Is this the right thing to do?'

[Shana A]

'Is this the right thing to do?'

The surgical conclusion to the gender reassignment pathway is irrevocable. But what alternative is there - and do any regret it?

    * Juliet Jacques
    * guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 23 February 2011 08.41 GMT

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/feb/23/gender-reassignment-transgender-journey   

Throughout transition, one question has stood out for me above the others: is this the right thing to do? For good reason, of course: any transsexual person, as well as the attendant medical personnel and friends, family and colleagues, understands the surgical conclusion to the pathway to be irrevocable.

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The social implications of coming out as transsexual (or otherwise transgender) have received far less attention, but the question of possible regret is just as pertinent at this point as at any other: telling people that you want to transition is as difficult to reverse as any of the consequent physical interventions.