Sports reporter to undergo sex change

Because of what she wrote.

One of the things I find annoying is just how stereotyped we all are. "You fight this for 40 years, then it wins". Exactly. I know how she feels, because it's how I felt too. I'm jealous that she has financial resources I don't have, but I'm vastly more grateful that I have a son, while she is childless. I wouldn't swap. But our experiences are much the same, we're both of the same age. I didn't have it as badly as she did, but my natural change pushed me over the line sooner by a year.

Read what Susan Stanton has written about her experiences. Read Christine's blog. Read my blog. They are just variations on a theme, all of us the same age, West coast, East coast, UK/Australia. All of us thinking that at least we're original in our weirdness, until we find out we're not.

Also to get where Christine's gotten already, she must have passed a whole battery of psychological tests, usually peer-reviewed by experts. They don't authorise hormones at therapeutic levels (rather than diagnostic ones) unless the gender specialist is 95% sure the patient has Harry Benjamin's Syndrome. Hormones, if taken for long enough, cause permanent changes in the brain.

Am I 100% sure? Well, I'm as sure as I am that Florida would beat Duke in college football. Surer. But your question is a good one, and I hope I've answered it to your satisfaction.

If not, may I suggest you go to the local library and read two books. The first is "True Selves", ISBN 978-0787967024. The second is the "Praeger Handbook of Transsexuality", ISBN 978-0275991760.

It's good to have a sceptic keeping me honest. Every writer should have an editor.

 

Well I thank you for being reasonable and not preachy in your answer.

Some on here think every time I ask a question I am trying to be a wise ass, when indeed it was a legitimate question. And these are things and issues that I have wondered about ever since I met -- on the World Wide Web of course--you.

 

Interesting stuff about "The Mystery of Gender" in Newsweek...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18618970/site/newsweek/

 

Shouldn't that have been in Blue
Sorry, I do get preachy and pedagogical at times. Thanks for cutting me slack. And your question really was a good one.

Nothing wrong with being a smart a...lec either if you have the intellect to justify it.

Take care, Zoe