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- From: w.p.coyne@newcastle.ac.uk
- Newsgroups: alt.transgendered
- Subject: Re: is it the body or the brain?
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- Date: 6 Jan 93 12:53:54 GMT
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- an2967@anon.penet.fi (Tierney Dhewitrei) writes:
-
- >I notice that most of us speak about being in the wrong body.
- >For me this is difficult to handle. What seems to be more
- >plausable is that I'm in the correct body, my brain is just
- >confused. I guess it's easier to think it is environment
- >rather then a mistake God made. Now this is the view of a
- >CDer that has been CDing for 30+ years and has never attempted
- >to discuss it with a professional (psychologist or otherwize).
- >So what's the answer? I know, if we knew that we would all be
- >either 'healed' or (what I would prefer) running around in our
- >favorite blouse and skirt when and where we please. So, am I
- >the only one that feels this way, or are there others that
- >think that maybe it is a psychological problem and not a
- >physical one. Am I reducing beyond the lowest common
- >denominator?
-
-
- In the book "Accounting for transsexualism and transhomosexuality"
- by Dr Brian Tully a psychologist, he describes some of 200 cases
- he dealt with during 8 years of work at Charing Cross Hospital in
- the Gender Identity Clinic.
-
- It is an interesting book and as the jacket says "It is hoped
- this book will be of use to anyone who needs to cope with this unusal
- form of human despair, whether they encounter it within themselves
- or someone close to them, or in a professional capacity"
-
- He wrote that a very large proportion of the male patients wanting
- TS treatment also suffered from various mental illnesses.
-
- He seems to subscribe to the idea that the most powerful thing in
- how people identify themselves is the way they are brought up, and
- that for most people who consider themselves transsexual it is
- caused by not have a normal gender identification.
-
- During their youth when they are learning the roles males and
- females are supposed to fill, for what ever reason, they cannot
- fulfill the these standard roles. As a way of protecting themselves
- phychologically some come to hold the belief that they are really
- members of the opposite gender.
-