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beargonewild -> RE: Transsexual = Female? (7/4/2009 5:41:34 PM)
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ORIGINAL: YoungMaster1988
Its a debate and I'm trying to learn a little more on the subject, I'm not saying I'm right and my opinion is the only one that matters and everyone should follow it. People do love to twist and focus too much on a single point on here.
Below is a reprint of an article my sister wrote and was printed in the local paper and was also picked up in one of the major papers based in Toronto, Canada. I have both written and verbal permission from her to post it here and may it will help you see thing a bit more clearly. Keep on ind she write this 15 years ago so some terminology has changed.
GENDER DISORDER
The brain is a very complex piece of anatomy that doctors and psychologist have been trying to understand for many years. Medical doctor and psychologist are having troubles explaining our thoughts, feelings and responses in our everyday activities. We, as today society, cant explain our actions as to why we are attracted to the same sex, along with our needs for excitement, pleasures and comfort.
A person walking down the street looking at another same sex person may become confused if there is an attraction. Or another person may not understand why he/she was born in the wrong gender or identity. These two types of scenarios are a mystery to scientists in today's norm as to why it is taking place or if there is a cure.
There have been many treatments and experiments that doctors, psychologists and religion authorities have tried to help a victim of abnormal behaviors in order to believe the victim may become part of today's society's norm.
Here is one example of treatment that has been tried for gender disorder only. In order for treatment of gender disorder you had to be diagnosed as having a medical disorder. Once you are diagnosed with gender disorder, it was said that one did not understand how one person had the desire to live as the opposite sex.
Back in the 60s to want to be the opposite sex was unheard of, so in order for a patient to receive treatment, the patient would have to go through rigorous treatment to be cured of this gender disorder.
In many institutions, the treatment was very harsh and cruel, sometimes leading to death. There have been many cases where the people diagnosed with gender disorder have received psychological help in order to live the socially normal life that the norm portrays.
One of the treatments that the doctor gave to males who wished to be females was to dress the male as a female; wear a female dress, panties, bras, nylons, and so on. Once you were fully dressed, the doctor would connect electrode wires to your body. What would happen is that you would receive an electric shock. Once you got zapped, you would start to take the female garments of until you were naked. The shock treatments would go on three to four times a day until the doctor felt you were cured. After receiving the shock treatments for several months the patient would go out and live in the society of norm thinking he was cured of the gender disorder.
In most cases, the shock and other cruel treatments would fail, whereas the patient felt he or she would never fit into the norm of society, so he or she would commit suicide. Or, if caught in the opposite gender role, he or she would be killed because the social norm believed he or she of a gender disorder was portrayed as a pedophile and a danger to society.Treatment for gender disorder would go on until the late 70s to the early 80s. The people who would survive the gay bashing, or electric shock treatment was the people who stayed at home and was never to be seen in public. The people who did dress in the opposite sex and lived their lives that way took a big chance in losing their life, that is, until the 1980s, when researchers came up with a whole new theory of gender disorder.
The theory is that gender disorder is now known as transgenderism. If you were diagnosed to be transgendered, there were steps and stages a person needed to follow. The first step is to see a psychologist regularly for one year. Then you would be recommended to a doctor to receive hormonal treatment. Your doctor would closely supervise the hormone treatment for the first two years. After the two years or so, you would need to live as the opposite gender for a period of one year before being allowed to receive any surgery that would alter your body to the opposite sex.
The reason for all these stages that need to be followed is that there have been cases where a person with a gender disorder would fall back to their birth sex and still live behind closed doors. If a transgender person chose to live his or her live with his or her birth sex, it would be because either the gender disorder was only a fetish to the transgender person, or the transgender person found it hard to deal with the so-called societys social norm.
Our thoughts and feelings are not like having a seizure where sometime the side of the brain causing the seizure may be removed or scraped for the person to lead a normal life without having to face any other seizures.
A gender disorder person is not someone to fear. If you would only take the time to talk to a person who has gender disorder, you would find that they are interesting people with thoughts and fears. By socializing with a gender disorder person you'll learn not only that this person did not choose this way of life but also had to learn how to deal with it in order to cope with society's norm.
People don't choose their sexual preference or their way of life when gender disorder comes into play.
A well-known fact is that people who realize they are living outside of the social norm may become victims of a high-rate of suicide. Suicide is an easy way out for the gender disorder person because he or she is very depressed and is afraid as to what their family, friends or community think, and most of all, the fear of being killed at the hands of someone else.
Gender disorder people are not looking for a handshake and don't expect today's society to understand and appreciate their way of life. People with gender disorders only ask for support and acceptance of this society in order to help deal with the pain and hurt they must face in order to fit into society's norm.
It has been said the ones who mock the abnormal person are the ones who speak for themselves and not the community.
These people doing the mocking are either facing a ghost in their own closet with the fear of being found out or have issues of their own that need to be dealt with. But it has been found societal norms fear is caused by ignorance of its own.
Gender disorder people are asking for the public not to turn a blind eye but to understand, help and work with the abnormalities in today's society. By doing so we can make this world a better place to live in.
I wrote this article because I was once a victim of the abnormal and faced a great deal of ridicule, embarrassment, but most of all fear the loss of my family and friends. I will say that I was a victim of suicide on two occasions and was admitted to a psychiatric institution because of self-harm. At the psychiatric hospital, I was diagnosed with having a gender disorder, now known as Transgender. I was very fortunate to get the support and help I needed from my family, friends and community. This is why I am here today to help educate others with or without a gender disorder.
Denise Giroux
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