I just watched the interview last night and I thought it was fascinating. I’m glad he’s chosen to go ahead and transition and like he said to explore this part of him. It must have been hard to wait for so long especially since he was initially going to do it in the 80s.
car crash consequences
Olympic champion Bruce Jenner sued for wrongful death in car crash
I did! That’s the first thing I thought about!
Editorial cartoon from this morning’s newspaper:
I recall reading about a study where researchers looked at all the observable signs of depression among transsexuals (things like alcoholism and suicide) and they concluded that there wasn’t any evidence that sex change operations helped. The people studied didn’t seem to be any happier after the procedure than they did before it. The implication was that the whole “gender identity” issue is really only a symptom of a deeper problem.
I thought the same thing for most of my life. Then I met a woman, who was just so CLEARLY really male, that I wouldn’t have believed her if she’d tried to deny it. If you met her, you’d think she was a male actor trying to act a female role and failing miserably. I felt deeply sympathetic for her, as I can’t imagine how painful it must be for someone at a lower income level, who most likely will never be able to transition fully.
After knowing her I wish I could take back so many things I said when I was younger. Fortunately most of them started and ended with "I just don’t get it"which was far more true than I imagined.
I also have a vague recollection of such a study. I recall somebody bringing it to Una’s attention and her destroying it with math and logic.
There may have been such a study, but based on past experience I suspect that whatever you were reading may not have been reporting the study’s findings accurately.
A while back there was a thread in GD where a poster kept claiming that there had been a study that showed that transsexuals were no less likely to commit suicide after sex reassignment surgery. However, the PLoS One study he cited (but obviously had not read, even though it is available freely online) said no such thing. The authors weren’t even comparing pre- and post-op transsexuals, but were instead comparing post-op transsexuals to controls who were not transsexual. The authors explicitly stated that their study should not be used to draw conclusions about the effectiveness of sex reassignment surgery. Their point was instead that sex reassignment surgery alone wouldn’t necessarily solve all of a transsexual person’s problems and that better follow-up care for post-op transsexuals may be needed.