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Originally Posted by Natalie_J
This might be simplifying the issue - I'm sure I'll be put straight if I'm getting this wrong  but I think the problem was that if you were a TS seeking hormone treatment and eventually SRS, you had to convince doctors that you really 'knew' that you were female (that's not putting it very well but I hope you can see what I mean). So if they suspected that you didn't regard your penis with horror and, even worse, might enjoy using it now and again  they considered that you were merely some kind of fetishist and would refuse treatment. I say was but this may well still be the case... |
That was very much the case at NHS National Health Service GIC's Gender Identity Clinics.
They are totally different now.
When I first went I was self medding, private counseling, & intending to pay for my surgeries. Not get them paid for by the NHS.
I also said I was having an orchiectomy not a vag
coz
1. It pees just fine
2. tucks up out the way the rest of the time so you would never know
3. gives great orgasms
Deep breath from the psych
then he said it was cool and that GIC's position had radically changed
in that now they see ts persons asa a wide spectrum rather than a narrow confined definition.
These days GIC's look to help the client find what is best for them
and enjoying orgasms from your willy is not a no go area
but they will push you on how you will handle post op
[be that an orchi or full SRS]
if the end result is a loss of sexual function.
It's where a person stands on body self identity, that is the big issue for GIC's
and should also be for the ts as well.
