Silhouette
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That's a sad story and a complete abuse of power by the therapist if that's how the events went down. He/she should lose their license.
Might want to read this story.. Error of Man: Surgical failure - transgender chooses death by euthanasia
And Nancy/Nathan struggled with this pain of rejection right until the time of her death: “Hours before his [sic] death Mr. Verhelst had spoken of how, as a child, he ‘was the girl that nobody wanted’, describing how his mother had complained that she’d wished he’d been born a boy.”...Does it take a psychologist to recognize that this was the real root of Verhelst’s problems? That being rejected from birth by her own mother as “so ugly” and as a “ghost birth” and as not being the son her mother wanted, was the real cause of her gender confusion? (I’m not saying this is always the case, but it was obviously the case here.)
You're aware that sex change is an industry, right? And with all industry, oversight agents (shrinks in this case) are heartily encouraged to look the other way to grease the wheels of the profit machine.. After all, if you trust an MD who expresses an open contempt for the hippocratic oath, do you think he'll confine it just to prescribing you hormones, which use has not been approved by the FDA or in amputating your healthy genitals to leave you a scarred halfling? Would that MD stop at nudging your psychologist to fast-track you for the operating room?
Here's another, same link:
Walt Heyer is a man who lived through this himself, first with his grandmother dressing him up as girl when he was just a few years old (and praising him for his looks after dressing him up), then, some years later, suffering repeated sexual abuse at the hands of another man.
As a married man with children, he concluded that he really was a woman, going through years of hormone therapy and then having sex-change surgery and becoming Laura, an identity he kept for years, only to realize that his deeper problems were never resolved. Not surprisingly, the sex-change doctor he saw also failed to explore Heyer’s other issues.
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