Transsexuals and Narcissism

I don't agree with all of this, but there's some interesting stuff on the psychological stuff of transsexuals.

Michelle claims from as early as she (he) can remember, he believed he was meant to be a girl.

He told his father this, and his father said, "OK, let me get the hedge clippers and I'll chop it off."

Both Michelle/Peter's parents were drunks. Both were mean as snakes. (This is from relatives. I never had the pleasure of meeting either parent. Her father was dead when I met Michelle and her mother had disowned her when she/he put on a dress.)

Michelle never had the rigorous counseling that legitimate transsexuals go through before being allowed to have reassignment surgery. Entitled to be who he/she believed she was, she had a doctor friend in the Veterans Administration hospital in Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania prescribe female hormones.

Later, the VA gave her shots that are normally used for men with prostate cancer. It knocks down testosterone.

Still, once a boy goes through puberty, there's no real turning back.

This made Michelle furious. And furious at people who did not accept her as female. Now, she was well over 6 feet tall, with very masculine facial features and a deep voice. The female hormones made her breast grow to about raisin size. She was angular, not curvy at all.

When she had to use a motorized scooter full-time because of the emphysema (alpha-1 antitrypsin, a rare congenital emphysema not helped by her smoking 3 packs of cigarettes daily for many years) she liked that it made her shorter and more passable.

Although she never used the word "pass". She wasn't passing as female. She WAS female, in her own mind. I've met other MTF's and FTM's (male-to-female/female-to-male) and they were not insane like Michelle.

So I'm not judging any other gender-changers. I only have direct, intimate knowledge of one transie: Michelle. And her problems were way beyond "gender dysphoria". Gender-changers have a hard enough time.

One of the reasons I'm not fond of the article I referenced it it seems to lump all together in a really dysfunctional mess. That's not the case.

Trying to be fair. Trying to understand.

Peace.