smoothie36 (imported) wrote: Mon Dec 31, 2012 9:18 am
An excellent question. One pro and one con is not so easy. My pro is that I am no longer obsessed with figuring out how, where and when to get castrated (probably begs other questions). My con is how do I expain being castrated to someone who becomes aware that I have no balls (any help here appreciated).
Given that it is impossible to tell the whole truth because it does not apparently exist, it may be sufficient to tell the truth that can be told.
I am unaware of anyone who does not have a "family history of cancer" of one sort or another, especially when one considers the chance that everyone alive is, however distantly, related to everyone else who is alive, such that the whole of humanity is actually one single family, therefore, everyone apparently has a "family history of cancer."
My final, and ultimately decisive, reason for my orchiectomy was my "family history of cancer," for real and in fact. That my dad and brother died from the forms of cancer I sought to prevent, or at least seriously delay, through surgical prophylaxis, is factually true is convenient as a detail for me, however, being in any way trans or BIID (or whatever else) is far more than enough actual reason, as I see it, for getting an effective orchiectomy.
I am an enthusiast when it comes to living a life that is in harmony with my innermost sense of self, such is what I did prior to my orchiectomy, such is what I have done ever since it.
In my personal life, I have never encountered a more efficacious preventative or curative for despair other than a resolute sense of valid personal integrity.
Testosterone long ago made it onto the "known carcinogens" list of the State of California.
So, for people who have difficulty "getting it," a family history of cancer may be a valid, and inescapably true, way to satisfy other people's sense of puzzlement.
My brother died from cancer at age 50.
