New life, new name, new gender

Lowell Sun ^ | 11/05/2007 | Lisa Redmond

[brooklinema]

More than half a century of emotional pain came to an end when Janice Carney opened her eyes on the morning of Feb. 25, 2001, in a Colorado hospital.

Carney, born John Joseph Carney, vividly remembers waking up on her 51st birthday, after eight hours of surgery, and seeing her best friend holding a birthday cake with a single candle on it.

"It was the beginning of my new life," Carney says.

A surgeon removed Carney's male genitalia, which Carney describes as "toxic waste," and reshaped the tissue to medically turn Carney from male to female.

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[tiger-one]

Cut, drill take hormones, DNA defines gender

[wideawake]

Altering reality to suit the mentally disturbed, rather than aiding the mentally disturbed to accept reality.

[johniegrad]

reshaped the tissue to medically turn Carney from male to female

Change the word "medically" to "genetically" to see how ridiculous this statement is.

[Joe 6-pack]

"A surgeon removed Carney's male genitalia, which Carney describes as "toxic waste"..."

It seems to me he traded in a few inches of toxic waste for an entire Love Canal....

[Francis McClobber]

Ba-dum-bump

Thank you! I’ll be here all week. Try the veal!

[CDHart]

Gross - I could have gone a long time without that imagery.

Carolyn

[traditional1]

Yeah; they gotta really feel "comfortable with themselves" with that surgery, alright.....

[NonValueAdded]

New life, new name, new gender, same mental illness. There, fixed it.

[pandoraou812]

Carney is looking for a long-term relationship, with a woman. The man born a woman inside loves women.

Must not have enough coffee yet. It got turned into a woman so It could be a lesbian....

[woollyone]

had an addadicktame eh?

...oh...the other way around...oops.

But hey...the chromosomes still determine gender, not the sugical mutilation.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Lorena Bobbit would have done the whole thing faster and a whole lot cheaper.

[DungeonMaster]

“Ok nurse, throw this away and get me the drill and a 1 inch spade bit”.

[DungeonMaster]

Altering reality to suit the mentally disturbed, rather than aiding the mentally disturbed to accept reality.

Imagine how possessed a person would have to be to do that.

[ArrogantBustard]

It got turned into a woman so It could be a lesbian....

How else could it turn out?

No normal man wants a relationship with a mutilated man. Mr. Carney can take all the drugs he wants, wear dresses, whatever ... still, he's not a woman. He's a mutilated man.

Gay guys are unlikely to be interested ... they want guys who look like guys. If they didn't, they wouldn't be queer.

So what's left?

Lesbians.

Pathetic.

[mollynme]

Carney's late father, an abusive alcoholic

And there you have the crux of the matter.

[trisham]

Sad. The mentally ill should be protected.

[pandoraou812]

Certainly it is pathetic. I think its plain sick. I don’t know who would want It.

[metmom]

It’s not a matter of coffee. It’ll take something a lot stronger before that even begins to make sense.

[popdonnelly]

Good grief!

[pandoraou812]

I’m still sick & seeing that this am without enough coffee made me really wonder. I was thinking am I reading this right? A guy goes through all of this to be a female & it now is a lesbian? I do not understand why at that age you would through all of that . Well I don’t understand it at any age...To me its plain sickening. At least it isn’t another teacher.

[JustaDumbBlonde]

Doctors that perform this surgery ought to be held up to some serious ridicule. Actually, it should be worse than that, but I don’t want to advocate violence.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“It was the beginning of my new life,” (Circus) Carney says. ;)

[ArrogantBustard]

Tar and Feathers.

[pnz1]

I am confused by the story? He was a man and became a woman, but wants to be a lesbian?

OKAY- I think I may need more coffee

[FishTale]

Who holds the door for whom?

[JustaDumbBlonde]

Works for me.

[pandoraou812]

I don’t know ..I guess since It looks elderly we all should be kind & hold the door. Its just creeping me out.

[caseinpoint]

I think what bothers me is the willingless of the media and others to play along and refer to HIM as her or she. As every cell in his body attests, he’s a he, not a she or even an it. When media puts on the blinkers and plays pretend, we are in trouble.

[RockinRight]

True with one caveat:

How do we classify those who have XY chromosomes but developed, naturally, as female? Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome. Real disorder. Some believe Jamie Lee Curtis has it, but I don’t know if that’s true.

Or those who are truly born “intersexed?”

[BlueMondaySkipper]

Who holds the door for whom?

I volunteer to hold the door....CLOSED

[tiger-one]

Simple, they did not have the surgical modification.