Woman sues over 30-year-old sex change
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/157761.html
Posted :  Thu, 13 Dec 2007 01:27:17 GMT
Author : World News Editor

A German woman whose female sex organs were removed 30 years ago as an 18-year-old is suing the surgeon who performed the procedure.

 

That is a very confusing story. What's really going on?

Why are journalists so inept when it comes to writing about TG?

There is something here that I fail to understand.  Very big, it is, and very big is my failure to understand.

Wing Walker

If the op was made at 18, the story makes no sense.
It only makes sense if the op was performed earlier, but
even then do doctors really take out sex organs in children?
But, I have trouble believing a doctor would mistake an
enlarge clitoris for a penis and then remove the internal organs!!!!!

Also, the fact that this person would have had to take T all those
years to keep male sexual characteristics and that the chromosomes
would tell a story (at least say that she's IS if that's indeed the case).

This thing doesn't make any sense. Either I'm insane or the journalist's gone wonky.

This story is in my local MX paper. 
It reports that "Christine' had a young boy's appearance and developed facial hair at puberty.  The womb was discovered during an appendix operation.  And later removed when she was 18 against her will as she did not understand the condition of 'intersexuality' with which she was born.
It says that her ambiguous body part was mistaken for male and thus registered as a male at birth.  Her sex chromosones are neither exclusively male or female, being 'intersex' and did not know she was until 2006.

Quote from: buttercup on December 13, 2007, 01:49:43 AM
This story is in my local MX paper. 
It reports that "Christine' had a young boy's appearance and developed facial hair at puberty.  The womb was discovered during an appendix operation.  And later removed when she was 18 against her will as she did not understand the condition of 'intersexuality' with which she was born.
It says that her ambiguous body part was mistaken for male and thus registered as a male at birth.  Her sex chromosones are neither exclusively male or female, being 'intersex' and did not know she was until 2006.

That explains what would otherwise be an unseasonable protest.

Thank you for the clarification.

Wing Walker

Quote from: Keira on December 13, 2007, 12:35:09 AM

If the op was made at 18, the story makes no sense.
It only makes sense if the op was performed earlier, but
even then do doctors really take out sex organs in children?
But, I have trouble believing a doctor would mistake an
enlarge clitoris for a penis and then remove the internal organs!!!!!

I recently had an MRI scan, which showed that most of my reproductive (female) system is intact, but under developed, and that at birth, my vaginal opening was surgically removed and male genetalia corrected... its not unnormal... The IS treatment pracices from 70s-early 90s were barbaric... and largely wrong.... ambiguous genetalia was often corrected to male when some form of 'penis' was present...
Ive only just found out how much my life was ruined my the doctors and my parents... i can understand her anger...
R