Opening Doors to Transsexual Medical Research

[Natasha]

Opening Doors to Transsexual Medical Research

http://ts-si.org/global-warning/29599-opening-doors-to-transsexual-medical-research
Friday, 15 April 2011 09:00
Lisa Jain Thompson   

When Sharon and I started TS-Si over a decade ago, the transsexual community (men and women born transsexual, medical doctors, therapists, scientists, researchers, and politicians) was divided into numerous dysfunctional activities and organizations.

Long term objectives, when they existed, were held hostage by an uncaring legion of tedious and petty territorial disputes as each group and party pursued their own individual political and social objectives.


Purity of intention and political litmus tests on both the left and right wreaked havoc on good science and rational, achievable objectives. The actual health and care of men and women with a transsexual history was secondary at best and, at worse, ignored in a climate of identity politics and righteous moral proclamations. The residue of the counter-productive squabbling continues down to the present day.

[Joelene9]

  Natasha,
  If they would start transgender research, I would like to be a part of that research, either as a subject or helping with the research.
  Good site!  I like this quote on that site  "Being born transsexual does not require one to be a knee-jerk fundamentalist Republican that finds conspiratorial feminists and homosexuals scheming under their beds."
  Back when I was born, these same type of people were looking for communists.  They ruined many lives and ended careers of good innocent people in their witch hunt.  They were accused of looking under their beds, but failed to look in the Lenin closet!
  Joelene