Transsexuals
Posted on February 19th, 2008 in Uncategorized by webmaster ||
A recent WSJ article (12/28/07) about transsexuals and morality raised my ire. The author, Naomi Riley, said that transsexuals were generally confused about gender and as a consequence she relies on an author, Paul McHugh’s, statement that transsexuals are no happier after surgery than before.
Naomi, Paul you are both full of unmitigated erroneous nonsense. I worked with pre and post-op transsexuals and I found a dramatically different reality.
In the mid 1970’s, working with the Human Sexuality team at Glide Church, I became interested in the problems, mostly financial, of the pre-op transsexuals. I decided to organize the post-op transsexual community into a group that would help directly fund and loan money to the pre-ops.
My organizing effort was a 100% failure. I met and talked with more than two dozen post-op transsexuals (all women in their new lives) who’s names I got from their surgeons. Every single one, every single one, was so successful and so well acclimated to her new life that she wanted nothing to do with her past life and she wanted no chance for the world to find out about her earlier life. The post-op transsexuals were all successful in their transitions and they were all delighted with their new lives.
Naomi and Paul, I suggest you do some good research like I did before you propagate your bigoted unfounded nonsense.