An article in today's Guardian, shows a change in policy in Spain.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/12/spanish-teenager...
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Kudos to Spain
This is forward thinking. Some think the USA is so advanced and progressive but I always read the comments that follow any gender based announcements on the web. Our special brand of ignorance never fails to rise to the surface, our most outspoken and opinionated are our bigots and fundamentalists.
Where is the...
US advanced and progressive (in the care of the transgendered)?
Pronoun problems?
• This article was amended on Wednesday 13 January 2010 to change the gender of some pronouns referring to the patient in this case.
Looks as though they initially fell into the standard trap of using male pronouns - but at least they later corrected them (no doubt with a little prompting)...
--Ben
As the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handers are in their right mind!
My dead tree copy ...
... retained what I suspect are the original pronouns. Somehow the strength of the interweb doesn't extend to my kitchen breakfast bar :) To be fair, it does get difficult to decide at what point to change pronouns in reports like this. As they were reporting a case of SRS then it's reasonable to demonstrate that at one point the individual was biologically male or the 'S' in SRS doesn't really have any point. It isn't a sensationalised account and the child is referred to as a 'boy' initially to make sense of the story to people who aren't as aware of the ramifications of gender dysphoria as people here. I think it's possible to get over sensitive to minor points like pronouns when it concerns a reasonably sympathetic report like this one. It would be different in a hostile article, of course.
I had thought of posting a link to this article myself but as Angharad is the official Guardian correspondent to BCTS I thought I'd leave it to her LOL
Robi
Pronouns
Not even there, I think. A hostile article using the correct pronouns would still be hostile.
It's a bit of a challenge to clad hostility in perfect form, but it's certainly possible.
--- Martin
Pronouns or typos?
Bear in mind that The Guardian was once famous for it's spelling mistakes, even getting it's own name wrong.
If I were a billionaire
In the case of the very rich, I have no doubt that some have already packed their young t person off to India, Thailand, Russia, or even downtown LA to have exactly that done, and I can see where they'd feel justified in doing it before puberty. I constantly hear other t folk say that they "knew" by age 4 or 5, as was the case with me. With a suicide rate approaching 50%, it would seem that someone would begin to address that, DUH!
I am thinking that with surgery done very early, the voice would be more feminine, the hips would approach feminine dimensions. I don't think the blood chemistry issue is as simple as just whacking the balls to get a girl. I would dearly like to know more about that but you can certainly bet that the money'd can get an endocrinologist to answer all those questions.
I was just reading some new research seen by A E Brain, which indicates that a certain area of the brain is dimensionally different, male to female, and T folk are more like female there. At any rate, early surgeries will either help or not, but I am sure that we must do something.
I was recently talking with a highly educated Muslim Physicist, who lives in Europe and he told me that European Psychology is far less damaging than American psychology, meaning, in his opinion, that there are far fewer um Transexuals. Before you abuse me, remember that I was stating "his" opinion.
Khadijah