Sports reporter to undergo sex change

Any affliction with an incidence of greater than one in 3000, and which kills 30% of sufferers before age 20 is surely worth some money.
Your attitude though is extremely common. Those on the Left don't want the research because it will show that male and female brains tend to differ significantly, and that the two sexes tend to have different talents. This is against the whole PostModern "Gender as a Social Construct" that many Academics on the Left have a lot invested in.
Those on the Right don't want any research on those Freaks.

As a fully credentialled NeoCon RWDB from wayback, I can sometimes get those on the Right to at least give me a fair hearing. The left is another matter.

 

When I was 6, I knew I was a girl. I wanted to do all the things that all the other girls I knew did. When I was 9, I was heartbroken to find out that a tomboy was not a girl with a wierd thing down there. When I was 12, I spent two days crying in bed becuase I realized then I was going to turn into one of them. Them being a boy.

From the Age of about 8 until I was nearly 42, I literally prayed, begged, pleaded, bargained, beseeched, and even offered to sell my soul for some variation on getting "fixed" -- made so that what I knew was real was either changed in my head or changed in my body. This happened each and every night, without fail.

When I had the fight I mentioned previously with my mother, I developed a sharp, burning pain in the center of my chest. This pain was a physical manifestation of rage brought on by helplessness and resentment. At 6, I had no clue what it was. Over the years, it developed into what we kindly term a serious anger management problem. Given that I've nearly killed people as a result, I strongly suspect it wasn't simply a problem.

One of the nastiest parts of GID is that an individual often develops co-morbidities -- that is, additional problems stemming fromt he suppression of adpatation to this issue.

One of mine was sociopathy. The anger is a direct sign of it.

The day that I broke down and finally realized that I had to do something about this or try once more to kill myself, I reached out and found a local transwoman who directed me to some help.

Within three days, my little firey core of anger was gone. The resentment at the world for this confinement that was so wrong was relieved.

35 years of rage -- mindless, meaningless, unstoppable rage -- gone. Something that decades of anger management techniques were unable to do.

That's how *I* knew.

And that's a much better answer than the one that I should use: How do you know what gender you are?

If you'd like a case study that's fairly famous and that was awesome becuase it literally changed the entire view of how gender is contructed in the human being, look up the case of David Reimer.

He knew what he was born as, and he never had a conscious knowledge of his original anatomy.

 

Go away, idiotsnetwork. Stop trying to run with the varsity when you are, at best, merely JV.

 

Known Penner (and his brother, also a longtime newspaper person) for years. This was not a publicity stunt.

 

It's threads like these that make me think of monkeys who fling poop. I know flinging poop is a bad thing and that it'd be great if one could teach the monkeys to not fling poop. But the only way to communicate with the monkeys and, hopefully, convince them that poop flinging is uncool, is to get close enough that they can fling the poop on me.

I'd rather just let the poop flingers splatter themselves than have to clean myself of their poop.

 

Because it may help to find a way of helping to solve intersex issues, may aid in formulating medicines to treat gender specific ailments, and it gives us a greater understanding of the incredibly varied and wonderful world we live in.

or, in sports speak: because its there.

 

Dysonnance -- All of that you are speaking to is a state of mind.

And you better watch using phrases like "when I was six, I wanted to do the things all the little girls wanted" because that smells of the kind of sexism sportschick and the rest of the thought police is doing their best to stomp out of this country....

 

CBC story on David Reimer. I remember the case now. He was born a boy, medical mistake during circumsion led to doctors insisting that he should be given the gentalial (sp) of a girl, it didn't work out so well and he eventually killed himself.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/reimer/

 

Medication for a self inflicted issues, I think not.
Lets help each other to live not help each other figure out what we are. If you can't figure out who you are then go spend some quality time with yourself and figure it out. Don't waste our money on things you can figure out for yourself.

 

I get the distinct impression that neither of you are treating this subject with the absolute and complete seriousness that it requires, nay, demands! Consider yourselves given a Stern Look. And if you ever saw my stern, you'd know how horrible that is.

I mean no disrespect...... Priceless, Mr Zee.

 

So, because there were a group of teens who dyed their hair blonde and wore one blue shoe and one red shoe, we should devote millions of federal funds on studying them and their behaviour? To see if it is biological or not?

I know that is an incredibly simplistic example, but the point is at what point do we draw the line?

 

Zoe -- See that last post tells me you have a good sense of humor, unlike many of the more self-important types around here.