True identity: Learning about sex reassignment surgery
Published August 01, 2012
FoxNews.com
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/08/01/true-identity-learning-about-sex-reassignment-surgery/ (http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/08/01/true-identity-learning-about-sex-reassignment-surgery/)
Dr. Manny Alvarez, senior managing health editor of FoxNews.com, sat down with Dr. Sherman Leis, founder of the Philadelphia Center for Transgender Surgery, to learn more about people living with gender identity disorder. "Gender identity disorder is also transsexualism," Leis told Alvarez. "It's basically when the brain is one gender and the body is that of the opposite."
Leis cleared up what he said was a common misconception, by noting that transsexualism has nothing to do with being gay or lesbian, as a gay person does not want to necessarily change their gender. Bono has acknowledged he first thought he was a lesbian before realizing he was transgender.
Leis said there are anatomic studies to prove this –- like the one done by University of Amsterdam, which found in the average male, the brain's bed nucleus is one size and shape, but in a transsexual male, the bed nucleus is the same size as that of a female.
"Gender identity disorder is also transsexualism" - dear, oh dear. Way to oversimplify.
Still, Fox covering this at all is something.
Quote from: Padma on August 02, 2012, 09:48:44 AM
Still, Fox covering this at all is something.
I was thinking the same thing.
Quote from: Padma on August 02, 2012, 09:48:44 AM
Still, Fox covering this at all is something.
Yes, that's exactly why I posted it.. otherwise it wasn't worth bothering...
Fox News sounds like one less reason to emigrate! :laugh:
Fox New is my go to source for scientific dissertation! ;) But it IS amazing they covered the issue at all in a non jerryspringeresque manner.
Quote from: justmeinoz on August 03, 2012, 02:37:02 AM
Fox News sounds like one less reason to emigrate! :laugh:
No it is a very good reason to emigrate ... to
Australia!
A million times better than what I've come to expect from Fox News. Times are a-changin'?
Quote from: Ms. OBrien on August 07, 2012, 07:04:11 AM
No it is a very good reason to emigrate ... to Australia!
Well Ma'am (GGM) {DSO and bar} ;D The doors are open. Let me know when you fly in and I'll arrange a "Susan's Welcoming Party"
There's more room than "you can poke a stick at" here, for anyone else contemplating a move.
Huggs
Catherine