Part of this post comes from an article recently sited in another post, full article here. The caps from the article deal with a couple of examples of trans regrets/misdiagnoses and the second set of screen caps are from those who've had trans surgeries (mutilations) that resulted in various complications. Complications seeming to be the norm, the extent of complications obviously varies per person.
Explain to me how the world wide medical community remains surgically brutalizing (according to them) mentally ill people as a means to "cure" their mental illness??? What century is this?? Is maintaining the status quo more important than individual lives??? Lives forever changed, changed in ways we saw (ice pick) lobotomies change forever the personalities of tens of thousands world wide, with some complications showing themselves immediately with relation to altered personalities, to complications that caused early deaths that were NOT foreseen!
How many many many lobotomy patients were merely depressed housewives with 5+ kids? Angry young women who refused to conform to parental/societal expectations? How many were young men too angry or maybe worse, much too sensitive? The literary genius Janet Frame found herself on that list and had her work not won the highest literary award in New Zealand a few days before, she too would have been lobotomized. Like Freeman and his ice pick lobotomies, I've no doubt the medical community will eventually catch up and begin TRULY treated those suffering from body shame/body dysphoria/gender shame/gender dysphoria, but like Freeman's ice pick lobotomy patients how many will forever be altered permanently by drugs and surgeries for a mental cure all till that time comes?
In the short term there is some hope of having GID removed from the next version of the DSM in 2013. While this is no solution to what is clearly mental, it would however halt at least temporarily many who are using private medical and countries with national health care from funding their transitions. Because there would still be a need from those who have the trans disorder, it may persuade some in the medical community to create alternatives in the way of therapies which would treat the issues where they had arisen, mentally. I have been recently contacted by the American
Psychiatric Institute for Research and Education regarding input on the DSM 5, keep your fingers crossed! Change might just be around the corner!
I try and generally do keep this blog and its posts here drama free, as I much prefer the serious and serious discussion/commenting because the issues here ARE serious, ARE life and death in fact for many. That said, I hope this doesnt come off as dramafying, as I post it with the same seriousness as I do when writing about Butch Shame or Femme invisibility.
I received an email last night claiming to be from a female who was forced (it seemed) to take "T"/transition, they wrote to me according to their email subject because they wanted me to use their story to warm other females about the negative effects of testosterone etc. Here are the pertinent snippets from their email to me:
Reading through this I was immediately suspicious because (besides it sounding totally contrived) they contradict themselves. They claim on one hand to have began "T" at around age 12/13 (7th grade) then after high school claimed they were going bald despite not having used "T". Not to mention there arent too many 6'3 200+ pound females out there and "T" might create male secondary characteristics, it isnt a growth hormone!
Needless to say I did a bit of research and found that Sean Tisdall, the man who sent the email claiming he was a trans(man) by force, was reallySean Tisdall in real time, Valerie Keefe online. See here:
Then researching a bit further for a more thorough verification I found this along with the same "weekend and Bernies" reference he made in his fabricated trans(man) email story to me.
Once I figured out this man's LIES, while skimming through a few of his journal posts I spotted this recent comment made about trans(men):
I post this for several reasons, one because this kinda bullshit needs to be exposed, I dont know the motivation behind this guy's LIES but I do know he is clearly unbalanced. (no, this isnt me saying every trans person under the sun is a nut job, this is me saying this one IS)
Two, I post this as a warning for any trans(men) that may know or think this guy is your friend. He isnt. He hates women and it seems he hates trans(men) even more. I wont say that this man is a typical autogynephile, but I will say he is a definite autogynephile! One whom it seems has such a deep seated hatred of women he's transferred that onto trans(men) as well. Which indicates he despises them for their natural female biology(which he'll never possess) and because once transitioned/passing he perceives them as a threat/competition for what his male privilege informs him belongs only to "real" men which to him they are not.
And lastly I post this because throughout the posts I read from him in various places, he has some SERIOUS pathological anger and hatred of what he calls "radfems" as in radical feminist and radical lesbian feminist (he fancies himself a 'lesbian'). So to any radical feminist who has dealt with this guy under his "valerie" guise, beware and remember he is a 6'3 340+ pound man first and foremost.
I ran across this blog recently and while it doesnt seem the blogger has maintained it, I wanted to bring some attention to this particular post made there and how the blogger beautifully and poignantly expresses Butch Oppression and how that oppression is taking its toll on Butch women of all age, colours and classes.
Along with "transphobic",
"misinformed" and "misinformation" seem to be the words du jour with
regards to me as a person and my blog as a source of accurate information
according to trans and trans apologists.
Before I disseminate a few of the Trans research
pieces I've collected here, I'd like to give you a brief history of my
experience with gathering and providing trans related information. After having
been at the cusp of the "queer"/trans born-in-the-wrong-body-crusade
and followed it to its current if-I-claim-it-say-it-it-be-true-mantra and
seeing/reading little in the way of critical dissent/analysis (at least on the
surface) I began commenting and then writing on the subject myself.
The first thing that happened was silence, and then came the
“transphobia” remarks and then came the demands for "proof" whenever
I questioned or disproved something from Trans Bible babble. So what better
place, what better material, what better source than straight from mouths of
the horses themselves, the Trans community first and then the medical/academic community
second.
So what I began doing when making a point based on
something harvested from a horses mouth I linked to the herd. What almost immediately
happened was the forums or communities or websites where the link came from
closed their open stable doors so that the links were then broken and the information
hidden. I found this outrageous and shocking at first, but being a persistent
bugger especially when real lives were dependant on this information I persevered,
and came up with a plan B of sorts: screen capping.
I joined these same forums and email lists and communities
and websites under aliases, a multitude of aliases so that when one is ferreted
out, a dozen more remain. It may seem wrong, intrusive even, but sadly the only
way truthful trans information from the REAL lives and lived experiences of “queer”/trans
people is going to be heard. So I screen capped whatever it was I was making a point
about, and not just one screen cap from one “queer”/trans person, but dozens, strength
in numbers and all that. So straight away came the “copyright infringement”
complaints, the next line of attack/defense utilized to keep me quiet and
truthful (sometimes ugly) “queer”/trans information in. Since “fair use” was
added to protect those who utilize quotes and pictures etc from the net with
the intent of humor or educational purposes, not money making, I rarely get a
copyright complaint now.
So between the threats of violence (I’ll bash your butch
brains in bitch) and rapes (I’ll fuck the lezzy right out of you cunt) and a
few (I could kill you bitch) I began just writing posts, with no links and no
screen caps, then I was hit with the “prove its” and the “you are misinformed”
all over again so that I saw I had come full circle in the trans maze of look here and not there.
The information from my posts are both general and specific
and obviously there are always exceptions to everything, BUT the information
does come from “queer”/trans people themselves, the medical community and
academic research gained from “queer”/trans people themselves. That said going
forward I will do my best to provide either through screen caps (private though
they might be), open links and research exactly where any “queer”/trans
information is gleaned from unless common sensed. With that, here is the first
of some of the academic research utilized for past posts.
Transphobia is one of the more newly identified oppressions, and
for the last number of years it has commanded the attention and focus of many
activist communities. As a result, there exists a hyperconsciousness around
transphobia. At the best of times, this alertness contributes to greater
dialogue about, and awareness and understanding of, transphobia. At the
worst of times, it contributes to a process of internal policing that creates a climate of fearthat shuts down process and the possibilities of what
can be discussed. (p. 379)
In this study,
sexual-minority women partners who resisted abuse were accused of being
‘anti-trans’ and were implicitly threatened with the status of their political
reputations (p.386)
While trans people are
often victims of violence,this
research reveals that they can also be perpetrators (p. 387)
The above can be found
in Brown, N. (2007) Stories from Outside the Frame: Intimate Partner
Abuse in Sexual-minority Women’s Relationships with Transsexual Men.Feminism
& Psychology
17(3) p.373-393.
Other readings…..
Bailey, J. M. Triea, K. (2007)
What Many Transgender Activists Don’t
Want You to Know: And why you should know it anyway.Perspectives in Biology and Medicine,
volume 50, number 4 (autumn) p. 521–34
Bailey, J. M. (2003). The
man who would be queen: The science of gender-bending and transsexualism.
Washington, DC: Joseph
Henry Press.
Drescher, J. (2010) Queer
Diagnoses: Parallels and Contrasts in the History of Homosexuality, Gender Variance, and the Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual Archives of Sexual
Behavior. 39:427–460
Hulshoff Pol, H. E., et al.
(2006). Changing your sex changes your brain: Influences of testosterone and
estrogen on adult human brain structure. European Journal of
Endocrinology155(suppl. 1):S107–S114.
Kenagy, G.P,
Hsieh C. M (2005) The risk less
known: female-to-male transgender persons' vulnerability to HIV infection AIDS
care - informaworld.com
Lawrence,A.A. (2004). Autogynephilia:
A paraphilic model of gender identity disorder. Journal of Gay
and Lesbian Psychotherapy 8(1/2):69–87
Lawrence,A.A. (2006). Clinical
and theoretical parallels between desire for limb amputation and gender
identity disorder. Archives
of Sexual Behavior35(3):263–78.
This list is literally the tip of the iceberg, since the
trans community seems either unaware of the information out there or is hell
bent on hiding it, I will include trans research/books/articles etc in future
posts to come.
As my poor little hillbilly granny (now dead) often said "the proof is in the pudding", so here's your pudding, it is up to you to provide the spoon.
