Posted on 06/05/2015 6:56:50 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A man who identifies as ex-transgender has expressed "caution" regarding former Olympic athlete Bruce Jenner's decision to change his gender identity to become "Caitlyn."
Walt Heyer, author and blogger with The Federalist, stated in an interview Tuesday with CNN that while Caitlyn Jenner may feel great at present "this doesn't always last."
"The surgeons can make it look like you changed genders but the fact of the matter is it's all cosmetic surgery. There's really no actual gender change," Heyer asserted during an interview with CNN's Carol Costello
"I felt like I had been duped, tricked, and it wasn't really real. I wasn't really a woman. I looked like one."
In an interview with The Christian Post, Heyer emphasized that he "never declared Jenner was wrong to change his gender."
"I did suggest caution because I have received hundreds of emails from transgenders over the years who regret making the transition. The long-term outcomes are not always the best and suicide is always a risk," Heyer emphasized.
Heyer was born a man and underwent gender reassignment surgery to become a woman only to eventually become a man once more.
An author of multiple books, Heyer has become a critic of gender reassignment surgery and believes that transgendered identity carries with it emotional wounds.
"Transgenders undergo hormone injections and irreversible surgeries in a desperate effort to feel better, yet they attempt and commit suicide at an alarming rate, even after treatment," reads the description of one of his books.
According to a 2003 study conducted in Sweden, transsexuals who change their gender through body mutilation or hormone therapy have a higher suicide rate than the general population.
The study, which followed 191 male-to-female gender reassignments and 133 female-to-male gender reassignments from 1973-2003, found that suicide attempts and in-patient psychiatric treatment actually increased in Sweden among those who had a sex change.
Heyer's comments come as the July issue of Vanity Fair magazine has Caitlyn Jenner on its front cover.
Jenner has received much support and admiration from social media, major media outlets, and fellow high profile celebrities and public figures.
"Bruce always had to tell a lie, he was always living that lie. Every day he always had a secret. From morning until night. Caitlyn doesn't have any secrets. As soon as the Vanity Fair cover comes out, I'm free," Jenner said in a promo video for the magazine.
Many social conservatives have taken issue with the gender identity change and assumption that Jenner has improved by now being Caitlyn, including the Rev. Franklin Graham.
"I have news for them — changing the outside doesn't change the inside. No man-made modification can fix what's wrong with the heart," posted Rev. Graham on Facebook.
"Only God can fix the human heart. If we ask for His forgiveness and accept by faith His Son, Jesus Christ, He will wipe the slate clean."
When asked by CP about Americans' acceptance of transgender identity, Heyer said he believed "it is important to have compassion for anyone struggling with their gender identity."
"After living eight years in a different gender, I do not think the long-term solution to resolving gender confusion is hormones, surgery and a change of clothing. It is a deeper issue," Heyer explained.
When his ratings drop, there will be an attempt... a “cry for help...”
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"Sex change" is biologically impossible. People who undergo sex-reassignment surgery do not change from men to women or vice versa. Rather, they become feminized men or masculinized women. Claiming that this is civil-rights matter and encouraging surgical intervention is in reality to collaborate with and promote a mental disorder."
Dr. McHugh, former psychiatrist in chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital, is the author of "Try to Remember: Psychiatry's Clash Over Meaning, Memory, and Mind" (Dana Press, 2008).
What is an “ex-transgender?” Does this person mean to say he is a man who dressed and lived as a woman but didn’t cut it off was “trans-gendered?”
If you can keep your junk and be “transgendered” then what the hell is the name for those fools that actually cut it off? You all say “transgendered” for any number of situations: Just plain homo to fool heteros, transvestite, cross-dresser, impersonators and whatever you guys call the full boat whacked-it-off.
Which is it? Do you guys even know? While I’m at it, this “I was born a man” sh!t is horse manure, too. Uf you still got it, you a man honey. No amount of tuckin’ and dissembling can hide that. Just like Brucie with his extra thick grannie panties in his glamor photo shoot.
"Caitlyn" Jenner isn't going to kill himself. He's laughing his ass off all the way to the bank.
When the ratings drop, he'll return to the world as Bruce in an exclusive interview.
Doctor walks into the room carrying a big knife. “OK Joe, when I finish, you will be Josephine.” No man in his right mind would allow that to happen. The left should change their mantra to Celebrate Mental Illness.
Will ESPN give him another ESPY Courage Award if he offs himself?
I think there’s the family of that lady he killed are gonna take him to the cleaners.....he’s gonna need some serious bucks.
Very few trannies actually get anything cut off. It is a very invasive, painful procedure that few doctors will perform electively. Most of them just take hormone pill, if that.
Many trannies do nothing more than play dress-up, like the "part-time" tranny who made the news recently while hanging out in the women's locker room at Planet Fitness.
Well, not surprisingly of course. I recall earlier this week, somebody shared Rush’s commentary on the subject in which he cited a psychologist’s observation that being insecure/unsatisfied with their gender is quite similar to what people with eating disorders have. Yet the media and academia and Hollyweird celebrate this sort of thing. Sick and pathetic, big time.
It all gives me a headache.
I am so old I remember when there were only two genders.
I know all that. My point is that they are all either too illiterate to develop distinct categories for what the specific conditions are, OR they are being intentionally misleading. This is because they are moral rejects and intellectual cowards who hide behind muddled words and misleading coy phrases.
RE: What is an “ex-transgender?” Does this person mean to say he is a man who dressed and lived as a woman but didn’t cut it off was “trans-gendered?”
It is not even certain that Bruce Jenner had surgery to take his Penis off.
If I were a Moderator, I would be spiking any mention, link or reference to this ass-spelunker.
When he was a man, I guess a "gay"(I normally use a stronger term) would be interested, but if he is now a "woman" are gays still interested?
RE: My wife and I were wondering: Who would “date” Bruce Jenner now that he is ostensibly a woman?
A lesbian?
I mean, Jenner us in his interview that he is still personally attracted to women...
That’s my point. They never want to tell. They want to mislead and make you make an assumption when they could just be honest.
In Jenner’s case, his intentions are to make the removal the season finale on some big finish up to a season of “Taking it off - the Jenner Story” or some such.
The others? They don’t want to say for one of two reasons: 1) they are perverts, but they are cowards - that last act is painfully final, and 2) they never intend to whack it off but they still want to play like a woman and fool hetero-men and be a queer(but not a queer, cuz they act like a woman).
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