Progress

If you drop into my blog now and then thank you and I apologise for not writing more regularly and giving you something interesting to read. I considered deleting it.

It has been 7 months since I saw my Doctor and got the ball rolling. I saw him in early December. Back then I was of a mind that it is quite outrageous, not to mention outdated, that there are just two options 1. is non-op, to stay transgendered, which is for most people an unattractive and stressful position to feel stuck in or 2. transition to the other side of the physical fence.

I was sent on to a psycho-sexual counsellor who deals with "gender issues" who referred me on to the psychiatrists. I was seen firstly by one and recently by a more senior practitioner who are both willing to refer me to the GIC. They are all willing, they say, but they don't send me. I was warned that this is the way Wales deals with us. So I've now been through 4 gate keepers and have been told for the fourth time that "it can take 2 years". I asked if the start time can be dated to when I asked my doctor for help. Like all in his field he was skilled in not answering without being rude. He suggests that I see another psychiatrist, in fact it isn't a suggestion which I can reject it is something which he has decided will happen if I want the op. I've already pointed out that a man with gyneomastia isn't vetted by several psychiatrists to see if he really, really wants an operation to remove man-boobs and he admits quite freely that is so and it isn't fair. What is being completely missed is that they look at me from the point of view that they are treating a woman with a gender disorder while humouring me that I'm a man.

I still stubbornly believe that people can be born with a male or female gender or have a concept of their gender identity as being both or neither and that this is an example of nature's very necessary diversity. I think we have natural variabilities not disorders. I propose that "gender disorder" is an insane anthropocentric view because nobody blinks at the variability of things which are not human. I still feel that anyone should be able to live as they are, were born, or as they wish to be, without encountering disapproval or enduring external interference. I think it is a false premise that people can, and therefore must, only be either wholly female or male. Your thoughts?