Quote from: JENNIFER on April 03, 2009, 02:50:19 PM
..'tis just my own opinion but if it were likely that a 'resolution' was found to correct GID and avoid the trauma and need for transition and surgery etc.,  frankly I think it is for those that are still to be concieved and through the use maybe of pre-birth screening technologies as applied to 'saviour siblings' and genetic preventatives like cancers. 

Have there been aspects that have been painful? Yes.

Does some sort of in-uetero test strike anyone as a positive much? Such in-uetero tests normally result in the pregnancy being terminated before completion if an anomaly is found.

"Better dead than transsexual?" Some may say yes.

I cannot and think in-uetero testing is an extraordinarily poor idea.

If I have mis-read what you were saying, Jennifer then I apologize, but that's what I thought I was reading in that last bit.

Nichole

My train of thought was towards those people that in the future and in full awareness of our condition, that they make use of future technologies and knowledge to screen out potentials for GID in the same way as Cancers and other disorders that surface currently post birth.

It is natural for potential parents to seek a perfect child and I am sure my own parents expected much from my birth as a boy.  Sadly, it is only after a few years that I and others display in various degrees any abnormalities to gender.  It is my view that if GID could be intercepted pre-birth then it is possible parents may elect to travel that pathway. If they had this facility, I may never have been born and thus not had to deal with my current trials. Good, Bad or Ugly?

Bad idea, we would end up getting aborted left right and centre just for having a possible future TS tendency.

I'm pro choice BTW but Eugenics are an obscenity.

Quote from: JENNIFER on April 03, 2009, 04:28:23 PM
My train of thought was towards those people that in the future and in full awareness of our condition, that they make use of future technologies and knowledge to screen out potentials for GID in the same way as Cancers and other disorders that surface currently post birth.

Cancer kills.  Many other screenable disorders can kill, or at least drastically shorten life.  Some mean that the child might lack for independence and require support the parents can't give.

Me?  My gender and its mismatch with my body is not a burden on ANYONE except me.  Yeah, the NHS (in my country) might have to spring for medical treatment in some cases--a cost far outweighed by having a more productive and happier member of society at the end of it. 

As for what my parents might have wanted:  I don't give a tinker's cuss TBH.  The fallout from my family background is responsible for WAY more of my problems than my gender issues.  If I'd been female inside as well as outside I might not have survived at all, given the scathing misogyny that was part of my daily diet.

Well said