RANSVESTIA

the tools (??) with which you do it. So surgery to justify open or repressed homosexuality is again not the most intelligent solution.

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In conclusion therfore, I urge any who read these lines to consider becoming the woman of your dreams by virtue of a conscious choice and decision, and not to achieve it as a by product of surgery which I consider to be by default. After surgery there is no other choice left to the person and that is what I mean by default. Trans- sexual surgery is NOT the endpoint on the TV or FP scale in spite of what some people including some professionals say. They are just unable to separate sex from gender and so believe that you can't change one without without changing the other because they are synonymous, simultaneous and inseparable. How wrong they are could be attested to by many of those who had the surgery but as this would be admitting that it was a mistake they cannot afford to do it. It is indirectly proved however by the number of those formerly heterosexual FPs who, having had surgery, now turn back to females as their sexual partners and like to think of themselves as lesbians. The incongruity of this assertion doesn't penetrate either. Since lesbians operate by oral methods and since the surgeon didn't do anything to the TS's tongue, "she" can do nothing after surgery that "he" couldn't have done before it. The important thing is that the individual although now living in the opposite gender is still following the mental directives that "he" as a male had before, namely attraction to a female.

Please think deeply on these matters if you have any thoughts at all about surgery. I did once, when Christine hit the papers. If I'd had $5000 I'd have been on the next boat. Fortunately I was broke and had 15 years to learn what I've tried to express in this essay. I hope it will save a few who might otherwise climb on the table in search of their dream.