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Those with
Sex Change
My focus was to look for regret studies that in some way I was able to relate to,
Regret
that I felt rang true to my personal experience. What I found is that "sex change
Because I have personally experienced "sex change regret" I set out to discover
if I was just an isolated case of a missed diagnosis.

regret" is far more common than I thought, and mine was not an isolated case. I
This is the
also found that medical research concerning the outcomes is very sparse,
book you
considering how life-changing the surgery is, and how very permanent the
need
in your
results are.
If you feel trapped in the wrong body, all you need is sex change surgery
and your problems will go away and your dreams will come true, right?

hands

No. The fact is: surgery will not fix the underlying delusional psychological
problems that caused the request for surgery.
SWEDISH STUDY
A long-term study of 324 sex-reassigned persons in 2003 in Sweden concluded:

Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher

risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity [diseased state]
than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment,
although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for
transsexualism. (Read the entire study here)
There are thousands of others like me, who underwent the surgery only to
discover that it did not help. The only results from the surgery were some
cosmetic changes.
It might be easy to dismiss my opinions as just one mans story, but I've done
extensive research into what the experts say. You can read the results in Paper
Genders.
SEX CHANGES ARE NOT EFFECTIVE, SAY RESEARCHERS

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by David Batty, July 30, 2004, Society Guardian

The article resonates with me. Ive included the beginning, but read the whole
thing its worth your time-There is no conclusive evidence that sex change operations improve the lives of
transsexuals, with many people remaining severely distressed and even suicidal
after the operation, according to a medical review conducted exclusively for
Guardian Weekend tomorrow.
The review of more than 100 international medical studies of post-operative
transsexuals by the University of Birmingham 's aggressive research intelligence
facility (Arif) found no robust scientific evidence that gender reassignment
surgery is clinically effective.

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about the
transgender
struggle

The Guardian asked Arif to conduct the review after speaking to several people
who regret changing gender or believe that the medical care they received failed
to prepare them for their new lives. They explain why they are unhappy with
Kid Dakota
their sex change and how they cope with the consequences in the Weekend
and the Secret
magazine tomorrow (July 31).
at Grandma's

House
Chris Hyde, the director of Arif, said: "There is a huge uncertainty over whether
by
Walt
Heyer
changing someone's sex is a good or a bad thing. While no doubt great care is
taken to ensure that appropriate patients undergo gender reassignment, there's
still a large number of people who have the surgery but remain traumatised often to the point of committing suicide."
Arif, which advises the NHS in the West Midlands about the evidence base of
healthcare treatments, found that most of the medical research on gender
reassignment was poorly designed, which skewed the results to suggest that sex
change operations are beneficial.
International research suggests that 3-18% of them (transsexuals) come to regret
switching gender.
Research from the US and Holland suggests that up to a fifth of patients regret
changing sex.
(see the entire article)

IN THE TRANSGENDER ZONE

Author David Batty talks about writing his article: (see the source)
The main article in Guardian Weekend was the result of 14 months of
investigation, including more than 100 interviews with TS/TG men and women,
activists, medics and other experts, as well as ploughing through dozens of
research papers going back well over 50 years. I spent 2-8 hrs interviewing the
main case studies - worryingly, several people told me I had asked them more
about their lives than the psychiatrists who had assessed them.
Then he addressed my situation and the negative reactions I get by sharing my
story:

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Some in the transsexual community has done their best to discredit those who
complain they have been misdiagnosed or improperly treated. The vast majority
of those I spoke to who regretted surgery were not liars or chasing compensation. Read Walt's
Many had suffered considerable trauma and confusion, some had been sexually
Story of
abused in childhood, others suffered from severe mental illnesses. The degree to Restoration
which most could have been held accountable for their poor medical care was
slight IMO.
Batty reports he discovered in his interviews that

As several psychiatrists and transpeople said to me patients who are isolated,

dysfunctional, in bad relationships, etc will probably remain so after surgery
without proper preparation, care and support.
I think nothing has changed over the last 30 yearsMeyers/McHugh concluded
the very same thing back then. In Surgical Sex (Copyright 1991- 2004 First
Things), Paul McHugh says:
The psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Jon Meyer was already developing a means
of following up with adults who received sex-change operations at Hopkins in
order to see how much the surgery had helped them. He found that most of the
patients he tracked down some years after their surgery were contented with
what they had done and that only a few regretted it. But in every other respect,
they were little changed in their psychological condition. They had much the
same problems with relationships, work, and emotions as before. The hope that
they would emerge now from their emotional difficulties to flourish
psychologically had not been fulfilled.
We saw the results as demonstrating that just as these men enjoyed crossdressing as women before the operation so they enjoyed cross-living after it. But
they were no better in their psychological integration or any easier to live with.

MY CONCLUSION
I come away with the realization that good research and studies need to be done
on the effectiveness of sex change surgery.
Homosexual and transgender activists continue to push sex change surgery as the
"necessary treatment" but it may, in fact, cause irreversable damage to the
patient.
Anyone considering the surgery should proceed with "extreme caution" and be
evaluated by psychologists who do not have a reputation of promoting the
surgery.
When I read that a respected medical institution in the UK evaluated more than
100 international medical studies of post-operative transsexuals and found no
robust scientific evidence that gender reassignment surgery is clinically
effective, I conclude that objective, scientific evidence is sorely lacking. Nothing
about the procedure is proven or determined conclusively yet not the diagnosis
criteria itself, not the criteria for determining successful outcomes, nor the
amount or strength of regret or happiness with the passage of time.

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Transgende
r's Faith
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I fully understand others may come away with completely different

conclusions--that is, perhaps, a good thing, because it proves my point, that is,
the lack of objective pre-surgery "objective testing."
The diagnosis process becomes nothing more than the equivalent of
psychological diagnosis by Russian roulette.

Feel free to respond, with respect please.

Walt
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