HBIGDA totally SUCKS!!!

Oh, definitely. I called my former psychiatrist (M.D.) late Friday afternoon to get an appointment. I'm going to point-blank tell her I'd like to obtain a reference letter for a bilateral orchiectomy. Then I'll do the same with my former psychotherapist (Ph.D.) who specializes in gender identity. Finally, I'll get my G.P.'s reference, if absolutely necessary. She's been gracious enough to prescribe my estrogen for the last two years, so I doubt she'll refuse. At that point, I'll ask the urologist who did my vasectomy fifteen years ago about getting these damned things removed. He could only refuse for personal/moral reasons, and if that happens, I'll start shopping around for a more trans-friendly urologist.

So long as you're alive, it's never too late to make a positive change in your life, and I'm damned certainly trying right now, one way AND another.

And the last 3 posts serve only to confirm what I've been pointing out for over 3 pages.

It is time to stop overselling medical and physical transition. Sell them to those who need it.

We wouldn't sell teeth extraction to everyone, we only sell it to those who've got a rotten tooth needing extraction. To do that is not underselling tooth extraction so why are we doing something completely different for physical and medical change? I just don't understand, everytime a normal situation is applied to the trans community it is like all common sense and good logic flies out the window.

In UK a trans woman recently got killed. In the days that followed, details of her personal life were plastered all over the papers. It seems that she'd loved to have flings and such, and the newspapers immediately labelled her an escort. How many cisgendered straight people indulge in one night stands and flings in clubs and bars, and yet the same type of behaviour in cisgendered people does not mark them out as prostitutes and escorts, but suddenly, when applied to a trans person, makes the person a prostitute?

This "oh we must not undersell medical transition" opposition to what I've been saying is as perplexing as what the newspapers are doing.

We don't try to oversell other medical treatments like we do with medical transition, so why is it underselling it suddenly when I point out that medical transition should not be used as a criteria to determine who is or isn't transsexual. That is like saying we should all have our teeth pulled out, healthy or not, just to human beings, because there are some who need rotten teeth pulled...

Actually there are other reasons for removing a tooth besides whether it has been rotted out or not. Crooked or distorted teeth get removed all the time when they cannot be correctly aligned. And then there is the case of wisdom teeth which are often times "impacted" and either need to be removed or else should be removed or even recommend to be removed because of "potential" problems down the line. So the rules that HBGIDA or WPATH go a couple of steps further in causing a client a great deal of harm than that of a dentist.