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07-30-2007 #41
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Originally Posted by SarahG
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07-31-2007 #42Originally Posted by eviltwin585
I don't intend to be mean but that's the argument/statement that is routinely used in the medical fields to try to prevent young trans patients from transitioning.
Alot of people will say the "just don't let them do anything that can't be reversed" argument/thought without putting any thought into it.
Nothing that can't be reversed? Under that logic no hrt for anyone in their "early 20s" (or earlier I am assuming) since long term that can lead to sterilization.
It is precisely those sentiments that have gotten some parents over the years in legal trouble for letting their kids (minors) start hrt before 16/18/21/whatever other arbitrary number.
I have known medical professionals who think it should be illegal to let anyone under 35 transistion because "they're just little kids that don't know what they want" (as if that's part of the equation?).
For a girl that is sterile from hrt, been on it for years etc, there is no legitimate reason for keeping orchis out of medical reach or playing the "we need X amount of letters" type games since the procedure 1- isn't gonna make the patient any more sterile, 2- hrt is safer at the lower dosages one can take after an orchi (or srs), considering that we're on hrt for all extensive purposes for life- it just "makes more sense" for a patient who needs/wants an orchi.
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07-31-2007 #43
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Originally Posted by SarahG
Vala,
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07-31-2007 #44
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Originally Posted by eviltwin585
I know of at least 2 people who have had FFS and have "detransitioned" back to a male, (androgynous) persona.
It will be interesting to see in the future what happens with the growing number of TSs who are having this fairly new radical surgery.
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07-31-2007 #45
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Originally Posted by Rod la Rod
Vala,
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07-31-2007 #46Originally Posted by Vala_TS
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07-31-2007 #47
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I don't think so.
http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/~mirror/FFS/LynnsFFS.html
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07-31-2007 #48
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Originally Posted by tsmandy
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Hugs,
TS Jamie
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07-31-2007 #49
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Originally Posted by Vala_TS
That said, as a Dominatrix (sometimes) I have on occasion (quite a few occasions actually) had people contact me with some really strange requests. I've had guys (meaning people who identify as men) want me to help them get on hormones for fetish purposes. One even wanted me to "force" him to have a sex change.
These are the kinds of people the SOC are designed to protect. People who may be exploring fetish fantasies to the point of reality. Unfortunately it hurts the rest of us.
As to when someone should transition. If I'd felt I could transition when I first figured out what was up my life would have been markedly different. But I felt pressured by society back in the 70's to "be a man" so I really tried. Until I reached the point where I'd rather have been dead than to "be a man" one more day. And then I transitioned.
Fortunately I'm in a position to help my partner realize her needs at an age when hormones and surgeries will make a difference in her life. And hopefully to offer some advice to others when I can.
She was able to catch and begin to change things when she was young enough that she can live her life as the woman she is and be 100% passable in any situation short of full nudity, and many if not most transgirls have to ask if she's a GG or not.
So yes - the earlier people can go on hormones - once they are sure of their desitny and need, the better.
Hugs,
TS Jamie
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07-31-2007 #50Originally Posted by justatransgirl
Think of all the stuff we'd have to make illegal or controlled under the argument of "well some crazy person could do ____[fill in the blank] with it!"
A crazy person could stab themselves in the eye with a screwdriver, that doesn't mean we should be required to get psy evaluations to buy screwdrivers.
Ok, I get that the drugs used in hrt require a prescription so some medical professional, on some level, has to make a judgment call on rather or not to write the slip- this I am not debating, however that reality does not mean that hrt should be kept out of the hands of, say people in their late teens, or that someone needs to go through the BS you'll find in most universal health care systems (like in the UK) to "get through the process"
Personally I question rather or not we really even need a prescription based system for most of the drugs that we over regulate in our system... western governments are addicted (almost in a clinical sense) to over regulation, especially in certain fields. It doesn't take a specialist to notice how much of a joke the FDA is, and how political it can be.