Posted on 07/31/2004 7:08:01 AM PDT by aculeus
Two months ago, Marissa Dainton changed sex for the third time in 11 years. She started life as Mark Dainton in 1967. In 1992, a year before her first sex change operation, she took the name Patricia Vincent. Four years later, Patricia decided to go back to living as Mark. Now she has become a woman again. Sitting in the lounge of the small terrace house she shares with her wife, her eyes stray to the wedding photo on the mantelpiece. "What happened to me should be a lesson in the need to make sure you're really ready before changing gender," she says.
Once Dainton had a penis, then a vagina, now she has nothing. Soon after her first sex change, she joined an evangelical church and became convinced her operation was sinful. She stopped taking oestrogen and was prescribed testosterone. Her beard and body hair began to grow back, and her sex drive soared. Before getting married to another member of the congregation six years ago, she had her artificial vagina removed. This left her with smooth skin where her genitals once were.
"My wife said she'd feel more comfortable about having a physical relationship if I didn't have a vagina. You'd have thought I'd have realised it was a mistake because I wasn't bothered about not being a 'complete man'. I never missed what was taken away," she says, smiling sardonically.
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Based on your reply I went and read the entire, rather long actually, piece. Very disturbing. I did like what the one person said "You can say you're Napoleon but unless the whole world agrees with you, you patently are not Napoleon."
Yes, it's quite horrible, isn't it? One of the first posts summed it up nicely by describing these people as the victimes of mad scientists, and that's about the size of it. In no other area of psychiatric practice do disturbed people come into a shrink's office and say, "I'm Napoleon," and then the psychiatric community runs around and spends hundreds of thousands of dollars to feed the lunatic's belief that he is Napoleon; rather, they give him therapy and medication until he realizes that he is not Napoleon. In the case of transsexuals they are metaphorically helped to believe in and indulge their madness. I pity them in their misery and am filled with loathing for the vile "doctors" who do this to them.
So true.
Some things should go without saying.
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