True transsexual, classic transsexual, or Harry Benjamin Syndrome…they are synonymous. They’re all the same. They all mean the same thing…
Transsexuality…
not crossdressing, not non-op, not gender queer, not androgenous, and certainly not transgender…but transsexuality.
Classically, transsexuality, in the case of a male to female transsexual, is a female born with the body of a male…someone who has known since their earliest cognizant memory that they were born in the wrong body; living in the body they were born is not an option and by nook or crook, one way or the other, sooner or later, gender reassignment surgery will happen. Gender reassignment surgery drives a true transsexual. According to Harry Benjamin, in his ground breaking book on the issue, The Transsexual Phenomenon, it is that fact, the consuming need for gender reassignment surgery, that singularly differentiates transsexuals from others. Benjamin did more research on the issue of transsexuality than anyone before or since, it was his life’s work…he should know.
Before the LGBT wierdos entered the mix, there were transsexuals and then everyone else. No more. The transgender mind screws saturate the information loops with arguments trying to blur the gender binary. No one but themselves, their homosexual trans activists, and the transgender are listening to that argument. But there is one premise of which those same idiots are succeeding brilliantly at: the continuous association of transsexuality with homosexuality. Pitifully, they could care less what consequences that may have on those who don’t share their twisted view.
I came across this article. It’s the story of a true, classic transsexual, Joanne Cassar. Read all of I Am a Woman… HERE. Below are excerpts:
“How can you call me a transsexual or a man? I always felt I was a woman. I am a woman”.
“Of course, I’m not interested in marrying a woman,” she says in a soft tone as she recounts how, every since she was a child, she always felt she was female.
“I was determined to go ahead. I would have rather died during surgery and had ‘Joanne’ written on my tombstone than lived a life in a man’s body.”
One thing that annoys her is when people refer to her as a transsexual. “I feel insulted by the term. I always felt and feel that I am a woman who happened to be born with a disability which I have now corrected.”
As sad and frustrating as her story is, it is refreshing to read the story of a true, classic transsexual, one who doesn’t utter LGBT or transgender with every breath, or lag on about her partner.
The homosexual trans activists are not concerned with the plight of someone like Joanne, myself, or the vast majority of post ops, straight women who are furious that our gender has been equated as nothing more than that of a male (You can thank only the trans activists for this continuous association of post ops like us to the homosexual movement). The queer trans activists are hell bent on continuing to link the gender issue of the post operative with the sexuality issues of homosexuals…all the while trying to sell the idea they are doing the post ops a favor. So, as the decades of time have passed since gender reassignment surgery has been readily available, rather than society more and more recognizing post ops as simply male or female, the result of a medical anomaly, instead we are viewed as homosexual men and women who have gone to the ultimate extreme of surgically altering our body. Our status has not been strenghthened and solidified as the years have gone by – as should have been the case – but delegitimazed.
Then again, who is surprised, they are homosexual and transgender, not straight and female (or male)…
and that…
makes me sick.
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You say you are a woman (and BTW I believe you). But why do you say that? Not on the basis of chromosomes.
You say it because you are one. Because your neurology was set at birth to F instead of the M that your chromosomes should by all rights have dictated. Something unusual and anomalous happened in the womb for you.
It’s a neuro-anatomical thing. BUT…. the trouble is…. biology is messy, and non-binary. There may be a
BiModal Distribution, two separate peaks, but the positions on those peaks will vary. Worse, there’s some between the peaks. There has to be, if the cause is neurological.
I’m a woman. Biologically I mean – well, more so than male. Intersexed badly, except in my brain, which at least is unremarkably female. An older clone of my 46xx niece. I’m Post-op too, though as I never had the normal male anatomy, Dr Suporn had to be creative. He’s good with such cases.
I prefer “woman” though. “Woman with a past” perhaps, even “woman with an unusual medical history”. When educating people, “Intersexed/Transsexual Woman” if need be. I eschew “transgendered”, but we don’t get a say in that, do we? Neither from the GLBITTQ conglomerate nor FamilyFirst, MassResistance and the like.
I cannot though make an absolute differentiation between classic HBS and neurologically-caused transsexuality, which includes some non-ops and lesbians. See http://aebrain.blogspot.com/2008/06/hbs.html for further thoughts on the subject.
I have read that essay from your blog, Zoë…in fact I posted a comment on it. As a note, I couldn’t agree with you more on the fanatic HBS element that seems to hijack some of the blog threads. More to the point, however, it’s doubtful you could post a link to research on the issues under discussion that I haven’t read. I’m fully informed, believe me.
Those that identify as transgender may or may not be intersexed/transsexual…wanting to present in the opposite gender, in itself, does not define one as intersex/transsexual. Either way, those who want to identify as transgender may do so and I am tickled pink. However, those transgender (who are not otherwise medically or financially restricted) who choose not to have GRS, nor have a desire to have GRS, while at the same time demanding to be recognized as their chosen gender are not classic transsexuals…and I don’t think they should be recognized as their chosen gender. Their sex/gender (I use the two words interchangeably) is their natal sex/gender as far as I’m concerned. Their sexuality is immaterial to me. A MtoF non op who identifies as a lesbian, who is not medically restricted and could afford GRS, is no more than a crossdresser to me.
With regard to your comment: “I eschew “transgendered”, but we don’t get a say in that, do we?”
No, we don’t…yet. We might have more of a say if more of those who “eschew” the association were bolder, stood up and said we abhor it.