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 | | From: | drgynfly | | Subject: | Re: Dazed and confused | | Date: | 8 Jan 2005 09:47:24 GMT |
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 | David Feuer wrote:
| drgynfly@_.mv.com wrote: | | > To make a long story short, the two problems were just two halves of | > one problem. Being that I was never the male I thought I was. There's | > no prostate in me, or plumbing. I've got something different in there. | > I found that out for sure on 1/22/04. | | > Medical science can make male parts that look like they belong on | > a horse; but they can't make it functional if it wasn't already. | > Or I could get a -change, and maybe use what fate had already | > given me. They make you try to change your social identity, and take | > lots of estrogen. Ok. | | > The op will be coming for me in 2005. But by now I'm totally ually | > CONFUSED. | | It's not entirely clear to me whether you are actually a woman (M2F or | not) or whether you are an intered man that someone /else/ thinks | should be a woman. Do you feel like you are supposed to be a woman? Or | | do you just listen to doctors and do what they say? The language you | use makes it sound like the change is not something you are choosing | for yourself, but rather something someone else is choosing for you. Of | course, I could just be reading it wrong. | | David, | home on winter break
I'm not sure how my sense of self should be catagorized. Was I ever a man? Or was I a drag king who didn't know it? My feelings don't run too close to any of the m2f's I know.
How far would you go to save your life and finally have the chance of physical satisfaction?
If you were to have a period and it had no means of exit, that's very bad medically. It will find an exit, even if that means ripping it's way through your abdomen. If you had them regularly, you're rolling the dice every time. Snake eyes means you lose. Every month is like the grim reaper coming a little closer.
No, the doctors aren't telling me to do this. They can't. They get in enough trouble for all the infants they victimize. But I had the choice between life and death, pleasure and pain. Maybe I didn't really understand what I was getting myself into. But some choices have alternatives that suck. --
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 | | From: | David Feuer | | Subject: | Re: Dazed and confused | | Date: | Wed, 12 Jan 2005 11:14:00 -0500 |
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 | drgynfly wrote:
> If you were to have a period and it had no means of exit, > that's very bad medically. It will find an exit, even if > that means ripping it's way through your abdomen. If you > had them regularly, you're rolling the dice every time. > Snake eyes means you lose. Every month is like the grim > reaper coming a little closer.
Well, there are always choices. If you feel yourself a man, you can have your ovaries removed. If you feel yourself a woman, you can have the change. If you're not sure, you may be able to take drugs to suppress menstruation for a year or so while you figure it out. Or you may be able to have surgery to allow drainage without having your penis and scrotum modified (i.e., a cut through the perineum). I'm not a doctor, so I don't know any details. But I'm sure that you should not have reassignment until you are certain of your psychological .
David
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