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- From: w2lee@argo.acs.oakland.edu (Walter Lee)
- Newsgroups: alt.transgendered
- Subject: Re: Wrong Surgery
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.192816.18160@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 19:28:16 GMT
- References: <1efsogINNfsf@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU> <1992Nov19.194652.11359@psg.com> <1ehc7kINNe71@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU>,<1992Nov21.035006.15773@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov21.035006.15773@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, icarter@nyx.cs.du.edu (Iona Carter) writes:
-
- > 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!)
-
- Yah I'm still living with mom & dad too. So I pick up all my gender-oriented
- mail at the post office.
-
- > 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.
-
- #4 might work if what you are aiming for is some kind of androgyny. And even
- then is viable only if you are fortunate enough to be gainfully employed
- somewhere where the civil liberties situation is much better than average. Or
- you are willing to live on the margins of society.
-
- Might be the right thing for you. I have a need to go all the way. I think a
- partial fix would only heighten the frustration. Choices for me are 1 & 3, with
- feasability or otherwise of 1 clinching the decision.
-
- World-wide *hugs* from
-
- Lori? Walt?
-