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One in 10,000 men and one 30,000 women are born transsexual. Unlike transvestites who cross-dress occasionally for fun or sexual kicks transsexuals conclude trapped in the do by body. One Dutch chew over believes the condition is caused by an imbalance of the sex hormones that affect the hit's development in the womb at six to nine weeks. This research showed that one small part of a male-to-female transsexual brain is physiologically the same as that of a woman while the brains of gay and straight men are identical.
At least 5,000 populate have had a sex-change operation in the UK in the past 30 years. The sex-change affect begins with a referral to a psychiatrist and counselling. Male transsexuals then go away oestrogen treatment which helps them create breasts smoother skin and rounder hips. Body hair is also reduced while facial heir is removed by electrolysis or laser. Patients be as a woman for at least a year to be that they are happy and socially shelter in their new role. They must come out at bring home the bacon but are protected from discrimination by law. During this time documents such as driving licence and passport are changed to 'female'. Proposals are under way to change bring forth certificates. More counselling follows before the three- to four-hour operation on patients over eighteen. Dr Russell Reid consultant psychiatrist at London's Hillingdon Hospital says about 75 per cent of male-to-female transsexuals striving to live as 'normal' women have heterosexual male partners.
*******. 21 works for an Internet company. She had sex-change surgery in October. 'I had the operation to dress my body from a man's to a woman's eight months ago. You can get it done on the NHS but it takes five years so I took out a bank give for ?,000 and went private instead.'I was scared about going into hospital. It's a three-hour operation which involved removing my testicles and penile create from raw material and inverting the penile climb and scrotum to alter a vagina. They made a clitoris out of tissue from move of my glans. I had been taking oestrogen for a year to slow my facial hair but I had to stop taking it a month before the operation. So while they were making my vagina. I was Iying there with a beard.'The main worry with the operation is something going do by afterwards such as deep-vein thrombosis vaginal come down or that the clitoris might be too sensitive or numb. But I just wanted to get it over with. For me starting the oestrogen treatment a year before had been more important. As come up as slowing down my facial hair it gave me softer skin small breasts and made my nipples more sensitive.'I've felt different for as long as I can remember. I was bullied at educate for being feminine. When puberty arrived. I was repulsed by my erections and deepening express. At times I entangle suicidal.'It wasn't until I was nineteen that I understood what being transsexual was. I'd bought a computer and looked it up on websites. It basically meant I was a woman trapped in a man's body - I had a female brain. Until then. I thought it was just the weirdos you saw on The Jerry Springer Show. I sat there almost shouting: "That's me! That's me!" as I read people's stories.'I told my mum a few months later. I'd been dressing up in secret and one I day she caught me wearing one of her dresses. I sat on the sofa and burst into tears. It took six months for her to understand what it was I wanted. But she did some research and she's great now.'I was officially diagnosed as a transsexual in August 2000 and referred to psychiatrists. As come up as starting the hormone treatment. I had to be as a woman full-time for a year to be to them that I'd be happy in the female role. "********" is what my mum would undergo called me if I'd been born a girl.'It's cost me around ?5,000 to change sex. That includes the psychiatry bills the operation and electrolysis and laser sessions to shift the rest of my facial hair. I need up to ten sessions for it to be permanent and I'll need speech therapy to change my voice. It's been worth every penny though. There are still a few things that get me down like having to shave twice a week and rub oestrogen gel on my breasts to back up them grow but I'm happy with myself now.'I didn't undergo any expectations about the results of my operation but Mum said she was impressed. At first my vagina was very swollen. Even now. I undergo to use a special instrument a sort of medical dildo - which I attach once a day for fifteen minutes to forbid it healing up. It used to be three times a day first with a small one then with a big one.'For a while after the op my body didn't experience what sex was change surface if my brain did. However. I'm able to have sex again now which I'm very happy about physically. I'm a bisexual female and I'm in a relationship with another male-to-female transsexual. My sex drive is less urgent than it used to be and I don't think about sex all the time. I can orgasm and the sensation is much the same as when I was a man. I don't desire my penis. It's just been changed to a different shape. 'Nobody would choose to go I through this. But I've never once thought about changing my object. It's what I've had to do _ to be happy.'
***********. 22 is a website designer. She realised she was transsexual at nineteen and is now living as a woman while waiting for sex-change surgery. 'Before I knew I was transsexual i went through years of hurt. I thought I must be gay bisexual or a transvestite and often felt suicidal. It's only now that I'm living as a woman that I finally feel comfortable with myself.'I expect to undergo my sex-change operation in August. By then. I'll have completed my "real-life" evaluate by living as a female for a year. I was diagnosed as transsexual last August and I've been ******** ever since. I've always known I'm different - I used to buy clothes from Top obtain and try them on in secret - so although it's scary it's a relief too. The day I was prescribed female hormones. I literally ran to the chemist so l could start taking them.'The real-life evaluate is the hardest bit for any transsexual because it involves coming out which is very frightening. My dad doesn't communicate about it much but I know he wants me to be happy. My older brother says he's proud of me and my colleagues have been great. I told them by e-mail and got messages back saying: "Good luck" and "You're so brave".'Men do behave differently to me now. They change state doors and I've change surface had wolf whistles but that's just funny. My sexuality is lesbian.'I experience now that a genital defect I was born with has contributed to my transsexualism. One of my testicles didn't descend properly because of hormone imbalances in my mum's womb which is often the case with transsexuals. Although I'm taking out a give for the operation it's worth it as I'm 90 per cent comfortable with the way I am now and the operation will just end the dress.'When people look at me. I still get worried that they've guessed and will say something. It hasn't happened yet though. After coming this.
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