Trans regret

Something is very wrong with transgender people. While some may think that is mean and politically incorrect to say, Captain Obvious says it couldn’t be more factual. If something wasn’t wrong, then why would they want to undergo a radical surgery to change themselves?

The question is whether the body is wrong or whether the mind is wrong. I suggest working on the mind part, which would be much less expensive and destructive.  It is sad to see people mutilate themselves in the hopes that it will make them happier.  It is more sad to see their regret and how they are ostracized by the LGBTQX community in the same way that any ex-gay people are.

If you really love people, you will never encourage their trans desires.

Via Trouble In Transtopia: Murmurs Of Sex Change Regret:

Our culture seems pretty much “to each his own” when it comes to elective bodily mutilation and the regret thereof. And there’s a lot of regret out there. According to a British poll, a whopping 65 percent of those who’ve had various cosmetic surgeries regret it. People who regret their tattoos, plastic surgery, or more extreme body modifications (here’s a sad Buzzfeed pictorial on the effects of ear gauges) can read up on the Internet and find an open array of remedies. Plastic surgeons make money both puttin’ it in and takin’ it out.

Hollywood stars can speak openly about misgivings over their boob jobs and whatnot. Regarding her lip enhancement surgery, Courtney Love said: “I just want the mouth God gave me back.”

But the difference between Love and the guy with phantom penis syndrome is that the guy isn’t allowed to talk about his regret. Not openly. The transgender lobby actively polices and suppresses discussion of sex-change regret, and claims it’s rare (no more than “5 percent.”) However, if you do decide to “de-transition” to once again identify with the sex in your DNA, talking about it will get you targeted by trans activists. So it’s a challenge to understand the scope of regret for sex change surgery. It’s out there, but…

‘It’s Genital Mutilation’

Let’s start with Alan Finch, a resident of Australia who decided when he was 19 to transition from male to female, and in his 20s had genital surgery. But then, at age 36, Finch told the Guardian newspaper in 2004:

. . . transsexualism was invented by psychiatrists. . . .You fundamentally can’t change sex … the surgery doesn’t alter you genetically. It’s genital mutilation. My ‘vagina’ was just the bag of my scrotum. It’s like a pouch, like a kangaroo. What’s scary is you still feel like you have a penis when you’re sexually aroused. It’s like phantom limb syndrome. It’s all been a terrible misadventure. I’ve never been a woman, just Alan . . . the analogy I use about giving surgery to someone desperate to change sex is it’s a bit like offering liposuction to an anorexic.

Finch went on to sue the Australian gender identity clinic at Melbourne’s Monash Medical Center for misdiagnosis. He also was involved in starting an outreach to others called “Gender Menders.” The reaction from the transgender community was fast, furious, and abusive, particularly in the Susans.org discussion forum as described in Sheila Jeffrey’s book, “Gender Hurts.”

Since then, Finch’s outreach website has been archived and there is no further information online. In fact, Finch’s subsequent silence is the norm for those who change their minds. This is perhaps not surprising, given the vigor and vindictiveness of the transgender community in persecuting those who have the temerity to suggest that all is not well in sexual La-La Land. But if you look you can find rogue headlines every now and then that even Hollywood’s fawning over “all things trans” can’t quite control. There’s much evidence that the carefully crafted pictures of transgender “authenticity” and “happiness” are more fiction than fact.

Buried Stories of High-Profile Regret

Rene Richards and Mike Penner remain fairly well known as male-to-female transgenders, the former from the 1970s and the latter recently. Both have stories of misgivings and sorrows that cannot be explained away through the old standard “it’s-society’s-fault” routinely trotted out by the transgender lobby.

Tennis champion Rene Richards was one of the first to go through sex-change surgery and was something of a sensation in the 1970s. As such, you might expect Richards to be a tower of strength, offering encouragement to those in similar circumstances today. Well, not so much. This is what Richards had to say in an excerpt from a March 1999 interview attributed to Tennis Magazine (unavailable in full online):

If there was a drug that I could have taken that would have reduced the pressure, I would have been better off staying the way I was—a totally intact person. I know deep down that I’m a second-class woman. I get a lot of inquiries from would-be transsexuals, but I don’t want anyone to hold me out as an example to follow. Today there are better choices, including medication, for dealing with the compulsion to cross dress and the depression that comes from gender confusion. As far as being fulfilled as a woman, I’m not as fulfilled as I dreamed of being. I get a lot of letters from people who are considering having this operation…and I discourage them all.’ —Rene Richards, “The Liaison Legacy,” Tennis Magazine, March 1999.

I encourage you to read it all.

 

5 thoughts on “Trans regret”

  1. Have you heard of BIID? When it’s a matter of a failure to properly identify the correct body parts, it’s a “disorder”. When it’s a matter of feeling like your body parts are the wrong gender, it’s not. How is that rational? (And isn’t it funny that I just wrote about this myself today?)

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  2. What a great article! It was really wonderful to read that someone had spoken the truth about this issue. Doctors used to help people treat their disorders, now they seem to promote the disorder in their patients. Mr. Finch called it the way it is. I am also not surprised that the rest of the cross dressing crowd attempted to annihilate him. Last year I was browsing at the Macy’s store in Brea California. I looked up from the counter and from across the store walked this very strange looking ‘woman’…..as it got closer I realized it was a man in his 50’s dressed in a pair of women’s black slacks, a see through black net top and a black bra underneath for all the world to see! He had on some weird makeup and a poofy kind of hair do……I was, I am sure, visibly shocked and disgusted by this obvious display of a really disturbed man who needed to be the center of attention! I looked around me at the other people and EVERYONE was acting as though it was perfectly normal…I don’t know if they really believed that or were too afraid to appear as though they weren’t politically correct. It was really a sick, sick thing. NOW, a year later, there is a fellow working in the make up department that dresses himself up like a woman and he’s an employee and sells make up to woman. It’s unbelievable how far society has accepted, promoted and treated as ‘trendy’ ever sexual aberration that some sick person comes up with. The real horror is these sick demented illnesses are taught to children is school as normal, healthy and to be celebrated. I don’t think it will be very long before pedophilia will be pushed forward as ‘age preference’, as I have already heard some talk about this. Great article.

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  3. I don’t know which is sadder: those who realize their mistake, or those who continue to delude themselves. Are there those who are truly happy with their alterations? I suppose so. But will they always be, and would they have always been unhappy had they never gone through with it? I can’t help but believe that those who undergo such surgeries talk themselves into it, not so much because they truly believe it’s the way to go, but because they can’t shake the compulsion to see what it is like, hoping all along that it will work out for the better.

    As for the intolerance of the “tolerance” crowd, they are never going to be as ashamed of themselves as they should be for their hypocrisy. Even to believe in their false notions regarding sexuality, one would think if they truly cared about people finding themselves that they would not be so quick to condemn those who reject their meme. But then, they are more concerned with validating their own choices that to support anything that might mitigate any validation is to be scorned.

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