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- From: icarter@nyx.cs.du.edu (Iona Carter)
- Subject: Re: Wrong Surgery
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.035006.15773@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Organization: Unseen University
- References: <1efsogINNfsf@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU> <1992Nov19.194652.11359@psg.com> <1ehc7kINNe71@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 03:50:06 GMT
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- In article <1ehc7kINNe71@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU> hackbod@xanth.CS.ORST.EDU (Dianne Hackborn) writes:
- >edw@psg.com (Ed Wright) writes:
- >
- > [Lots of irrelevant stuff deleted]
- >
- >>You forgot..... in about 8 weeks your paycehck will be diminished by about 25%
- >>:-(
- >
- >Ummm... just another good reason to think about a Change In Career?
- >
- >--
- >Dianne Kyra Hackborn The healthy .sig:
-
- I could handle it .... it would solve 70% of my problems :
-
- Hi mum! Hi dad! Yes its me ... There was this mistake at the hospital ....
-
- Seriously though, how do people handle their parents and other family? I know
- that my parents would always love me what ever I did, but they would think of
- THEMSELVES as have failed completely. This just is not true, they have always
- done the right things, and I am proud to be their daughter (son as they would
- see it). They are both committed Christians (so am I) and it would completely
- blow their world apart, my mother once told me her views on Transsexuals :
-
- "I feel a great deal of sympaty for them, it must be terrible having to
- go through all that, just to get to where you believe you should have
- started ... and they would miss out on so much not having seen child-
- hood from their "correct" perspective.
- But if someone suggested that one of my sons was that way inclined,
- I would probably punch their lights out (or words to that effect)".
-
- The circumstance giving rise to this was the arrival of a letter addressed
- to me but as Miss not Mr., which turned out to be a brochure from an SRS
- clinic I had sent for. Mother phoned the clinic and said that someone had
- obviously faked a letter from me. The clinic said that this sort of thing
- annoyed them too and they would send a copy of the letter (!) to us. Only
- some frantic phone calls to them prevented a potential disaster, they rang
- back and told my mother that it had been a telephone enquiry (phew!)
- So (simplistically speaking) I have four choices:
-
- 1) Tell me parents, seek reassignment. The would shatter their lives.
- 2) Dissappear, seek SRS. This would also shatter their lives.
- 3) Remain an unhappy male. This would semi-ruin my life.
- 4) Compromise. Live away, CD, get electrolysis, (hormones?) etc. but
- disguise myself as male when visiting them or vice versa.
-
- 1) and 2) can be ruled out completely and out of hand as there is no way
- that I could allow myself to ruin two (plus the rest of my families lives
- just to put mine right.
- 3) has some advantages, as I am (as a male) heterosexual i.e. I can only
- love women an this would allow this easily. Though I usually spend too much
- time wishing I WAS a particular girl to actually get round to asking them
- out >8( . I suppose I could be termed a "male lesbian" but I will talk about
- this another time, as I am to tired to try to figure it out (it is 3.20 am)
- 4) Seems like the way to go, though it is hardly satisfactory (how easy
- would it be to conceal the effect of hormones?)
-
- There are further complications but I will go into these when I get round
- to posting my bio on cd-forum (the most fantastic discovery in years, one
- day I was wondering how to get ANY info on being ts/tv from the people them-
- selves the next I had access to more by mail than I knew what to do with 8))
-
- Love and (mostly) transatlantic hugs,
-
- Iona. (in the UK, Canterbury University in Kent)
-
- PS. I know this is a bit of a generalisation, but roughly how long would it
- take to get hormones prescribed after the beginning of councilling, in
- the UK? How long would it take to get councilling for that matter on the
- NHS? 8( I am in my first year of university, and would find it impossible
- to dress "properly" most of the time (I could not risk people telling my
- parents so I cannot come out to people up here, though I wish I could.
- But maybe I'm using that as an excuse?). Would they still be prepared to
- prescribe me hormones in my situation? What other options do I have?
- I have heard of "breast development creams" do these work? Just how
- many of us from the UK are there on here anyway? Is it possible to go
- into a "Transformations" store (UK CDing company) and just have a look
- round for a few hours, no pressure? I can only just afford to get to
- London let alone buy anything. Just how big is their London shop anyway?
- Sorry to have waffled so much and to ask so many questions (I'm sure
- I could think of more ....8) but there is not much available to us in
- the UK, I have never heard of a support group, I know of only one
- Company offering CD type goods (though they go by various names).
-