Susan's Place Transgender Resources

BACKSTORY:
A month ago, I got on the Rush Limbaugh show (https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php?topic=166042.new#new) for five minutes (http://mediamatters.org/video/2014/05/29/transgender-caller-condemns-limbaugh-for-using/199505).  The story got reported by MediaMatters, and then picked up by scores of news-outlets from the Chicago Tribune to the Huffington Post to the Christian Post.  Then some Christian columnists wrote columns about it.  In the Christian Post, Dr. Michael Brown of the Ask Dr. Brown Radio Show referred to me as "a man who called himself Tina".  I responded to the column, and got on his radio show for ten minutes (https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,166210.0.html).  He let me do most of the talking, then challenged me to read a book from his side of the fence, and be on the show again.  The book he referred to was the latest book by Walt Heyer, who is somewhat notorious for webpages about "Transgender Regret".  I wrote a scathing review of the book, and sent it to Dr. Brown, who forwarded it to Heyer.  I anticipate being on the Brown show again in a couple weeks.

The weakest point of Heyer's book is the half-dozen weak-ass examples of people who detransitioned (like Heyer himself had done), regret transitioning, or decided not to transition.  I was thinking to use the I Love My Life thread as a rebuttal point, but I kinda refined the idea, tuning it more to my rebuttal of Heyer.

If you agree with the petition statement, please make one single post on this thread affirming that.  You can just answer "agree", or you can comment.  But, I want to be able to use the number of replies as the key fact, and I want the exact number to be indisputable - so please don't post more than once, or post that you disagree.  Start another thread for that if you want.

Thanks for your cooperation!

PETITION STATEMENT:
DESPITE THE MYRIAD OF COMPLICATIONS AND DIFFICULTIES OF BEING TRANSGENDER, I LOVE MY LIFE! AND WOULD NEVER GO BACK TO LIVING IN THE WRONG GENDER.

Definitely agree. :)

Can't say I miss the endless depression, suicidal tendencies, extreme social awkwardness, or any of the other problems that came with trying to live life as my birth gender.

Never going back. I don't ever want to even think it possible.

My therapist asked whether I'd ever thought about being a man again. I answered "not for a fraction of a second".

I'm not sure if it's acceptable for me to post here as I'm sadly still pre-everything, but I'm not sorry that I came out, I do not regret trying to be myself and I know that if I hadn't I probably would eventually have killed myself.

I agree.

Even though transitioning has been difficult and painful - and has cost me my marriage and my good relationship with my children - I will never, ever go back to pretending to be female. Because if I hadn't transitioned, the cost would've been my own life. It's better for my family to come to terms with my transition than to come to terms with my suicide.

Trying to live as a female was absolute torture for me and nobody deserves to be forced to go through that kind of pain. I've never been happier, more comfortable in my own skin or more satisfied with my life than I am now that I am finally allowed to be myself.

Oh, and thank you, Gina, for taking a stand for us.  :)

I would use scientific studies or statistics from recognised sources, not a bunch of lovable randoms from an internet site :-) x

** Edit. My post is my statement that I agree as well as my suggestion.

HRT has completely removed my depression, reduced my OCD & anger levels, made me much easier to be around, & is allowing me to feel free within myself as I never had been before.

There is no going back.  My quality of life has improved too much with both the admission & acceptance that I am trans and, more obviously, with the hormone treatment I have been taking.

Tessa

You sure have a lot of spunk!

The "Ask Dr Brown" show is for pie in the sky types who'll believe anything that "Dr" Brown tells them.  "Dr" Brown is clueless when it comes to gender issues.  He is not a medical doctor of any kind, his degree is in Near Eastern Languages and Literatures from New York University.

Walt Heyer is simply a crack-pot.  Someone that made a mistake and assumes all trans people who transition are making the same mistake he did.  NOPE.  I've actually crossed paths with this man and there is no reasoning with him at all.

Is my life better?  Hell yes!  I can't say whether I'd still be alive today if I hadn't.  By the time I started transition over a decade ago, my body had started to give out because of the stress.  Would I go back to my old life?  Hell NO!  I've told folks I wouldn't go back even if they offered me a BILLION dollars.  Nothing beats being able to be your true self; nothing.  The last 11 years have been the best eleven years of my life.

I agree.

I am now a happy woman, I was never a man no matter how hard I tried