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- AS LONG AS THEY ARE NOT USING TAX PAYERS MONEY. I WISH THEM ALL THE LUCK IN THE WORLD.AS LONG AS THEY WORK PAY THIER WAY AND PULL THIER WEIGHT MORE POWER TO THEM.WE HAVE ENOUGH TRASH BREEDERS IN THIS COUNTRY AS IT IS IF THESE PEOPLE ARE CUTTING OFF NUTS AND NOT BREEDING , HELL BUY THEM A DRINK AND SHAKE THIER HAND THEY ARE DOING THE MASSES A FAVOR.
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- a man needs to build muscles and not decide to eat and starve himself over not being succesful as other men are. women need to tone after child birth. a man is not a woman and cannot with all the surgery ever make babies like real women. real attorney men should not get involved with this issue and doctors doing this type of surgery should not act like god and change the world and think this is normal behavior on their part.
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- i think it is a sick mentally ill type of endeavor to make money and fame on the part of a perverted doctor who probably cannot handle his gender. be happy you were born healthy in a way that a positive person knows and expects. a butchering of your *** organs is not the answer to any identity problems you may encounter.
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- I am so outraged about part of this story.
1. The gal Rebecca said she cut herself and was addicted to drugs and alcohol.
No surgeon should ever agree to do surgery on someone who is presenting cutting, which is associated with dissociative disorder. The person needs therapy to deal with the abuse that usually underlies such self-destructive behavior. *** surgery won%u2019t help, in fact, it may make recovery impossible.
2. The suicide, drug abuse, and wanting to be a woman was my story.
I myself had the surgery by Dr. Biber in Trinidad. Cosmetically, the surgery was a %u201Csuccess.%u201D But psychologically? No way. It was a disaster. I had suffered childhood abuse. My coping mechanism was to dissociate from being a male. I fantasized for over 20 years about becoming a woman and finally did it, following all the medical %u201Cstandards of care.%u201D
This segment was an infomercial for having the surgery. Psychologists should be outraged. Surgeons should take notice. This is not the way to %u201Chelp%u201D suffering people.
For more information, see ***regret.com. - Reply to this comment
- Seth I''d also investigate your numbers. There are approximately 100,000 post-op folks in the US now. As a result your 1,000 people a year figure is too LOW. Probably 50% of MtF people who have surgery go overseas for surgery. Places like Thailand have become the leaders of such surgery, both in cost and expertise. The insurance industry in the US makes it very difficult for anyone to practice here. Did you ask Marci about how difficult it is for her to get malpractice insurance? It''s a dirty little secret that the industry forces docs like her to pay through the nose for insurance. Usually high premiums are indicative of risk, but not for *** reassignment surgery. I have NEVER heard of a case involving *** reassignment. The insurance industry is actively discriminating against surgeons who treat transsexual people. As I said in my other post insurance in the United States is NOT about helping people, it''s about making money. And being basically an unregulated industry they are free to extort money from surgeons like doctor Bowers.
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- Seth, why can''t people listen to the people of Trinidad:
Get over it!
People have been medically transitioning for more than 60 years. The American Medical Association agrees that it is appropriate medical treatment for transsexualism. When will more Americans realize that?
If someone was born with a cleft-lip or palate... we would fix it. If they had a club foot we would fix it. We know people are born straight, gay/lesbian, bi or asexual and we''re okay with that. But if someone is born transsexual we are not tolerant. Why? We as a society really need to ask ourselves how this affects us personally. If you do you''d have to admit it doesn''t. And further it is GOOD for society. Instead of losing people to suicide or depression, people who transition are happier and lead productive lives. - Reply to this comment
- http://storiesforchange.net/user/jonichristian
Congressional Hearing on Discrimination
Against Transgender Americans in the Workplace
This historic hearing took place on Thursday, June 26, 2008.
Congressman Tim Ryan OH,
This could be an opportunity to pass gender identity inclusion.
Please consider passing this on to your contacts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LTzxGQyZOU
I hope this helps...33 years later
http://www.uaw.org/solidarity/02/0502/union05.cfm
I would like to offer myself as an example of success with my union.
Thank you.
Joni
http://godofloflovenotofhate.googlepages.com/godoflove
Joni Christian
330-472-3763
"Be careful who you hate,
it might just be someone you love."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghpeqotJxKA - Reply to this comment
- OneWorldUSA you are wrong. For people born transsexual *** reassignment surgery is necessary. This is what the Benjamin Standards of Care say:
"*** Reassignment is Effective and Medically Indicated in Severe GID. In persons diagnosed
with transsexualism or profound GID, *** reassignment surgery, along with hormone therapy
and real-life experience, is a treatment that has proven to be effective. Such a therapeutic
regimen, when prescribed or recommended by qualified practitioners, is medically indicated and
medically necessary. *** reassignment is not "experimental," "investigational," "elective,"
"cosmetic," or optional in any meaningful sense. It constitutes very effective and appropriate
treatment for transsexualism or profound GID."
Can they make it any clearer than that? Also being a medical person myself I can tell you $18,000 is a bargain for surgery in the US. Once insurance companies get involved I imagine the cost will magically increase to $50,000. The insurance industry in the US isn''t about helping people, it''s about money. - Reply to this comment
- OneWorldUSA - the AMA and APA have both stated that surgery most certainly *is* medically necessary. The AMA recently passed a resolution condemning in the strongest terms the exclusion of it from insurance policies, and called for it to be included forthwith.
The AMA resolution is available on their website at http://www.ama-assn.org/ama1/pub/upload/mm/471/115.doc - Reply to this comment
- I believe in the right to medical privacy. Do I understand transgenderism? No. But I do believe it legitimately exists. Perhaps it begins as a medical anomaly, I can buy that. Nonetheless, if the operation is available and not paid for by insurance because it isn''t medically necessary, if these folks choose to change their gender it is their business and I would not want to deny them their right to optional medical procedures or their right to privacy in doing so.
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