Posted on 11/11/2009 8:21:03 AM PST by Feline_AIDS
On June 15, Richard Ramsey checked into Lower Bucks Hospital in Bristol Township for major surgery. When he left three days later, Ramsey was no longer Richard, but Renee. Her first words to her doctor when she awakened after the operation were, "Now I'm the lady I always knew I was."
Ramsey, a tall, lean woman, neatly turned out in black tailored pants and a lavender turtleneck sweater that used to be her wife's, is likely the oldest person in the United States to have surgery to change genders, experts say. She is 77.
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"I would have liked to be a lady a long time ago," says Ramsey, a U.S. Navy veteran of 20 years who also says he served in special operations in the Army.
"Now, the hardest thing I have to do is learn to be a lady," said Ramsey, who grew up in northern New Jersey and still lives there. "Little girls learn it from the time they're 5 or 6 or even younger. I'm just starting out. I have to learn and unlearn. When I get angry at someone, I have to practice acting like a lady instead of sounding off like I used to do.
"But now I feel calm, happy, and relaxed. And do you know what makes me feel the best? When I get on a train and the conductor says, 'May I have your ticket, ma'am?' I feel like a million dollars."
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*dry heave*
Beer goggles cannot help fix that one.
We’ve been trying to deal with mental illness through surgery for a long time. It got a bad reputation for awhile, but now it’s back and business is good. Oh, we stopped doing the lobotomy thing (especially after that Kennedy girl got a bad one) but we’re still trying to solve mental problems with a knife.
Why is vet in piece. Let say it entered military at 18, 20 years put it to 38 yrs old. Now 77 - 38 = 39 or almost 40 years since military service.
What has it been doing for now 40 years.
“But now I feel calm, happy and relaxed”.
-—got news for you—most 77 year olds feel that way.
By the time they get to that age they’ve got a lot of
stuff figured out, and see no need to undermine their
remaining time on earth./
Isn’t Lindsay Graham-nesty in the Naval Reserve? Hope springs eternal.
No doubt this type of procedure will be covered under obamacare.
That’s just wrong.
I really don't even want to think about who/what it has been doing.
Why, oh why, did I click on this thread?
Cueing up Shania Twain’s “Man! I Feel Like A Woman”
Senile.
FINALLY, A LADY (20 Year Navy Vet Gets Sex Change)
So now we as taxpayers are forced to FUND perverted surgery?
I wonder how much this cost U.S.?
Yes - same.
Is this the latest craze for lesbians to appear more accpetable by changing their appearance to be the OPPOSITE SEX?
lesbian - male - and artifical male pursues females?
FINALLY A LADY? No. Just a sad, emotionally crippled old man. You can not change your gender. It is determined by your DNA. You can change your outward appearance but that does not change your DNA. Our psychiatrists have perverted their profession by pretending this surgery will help these disturbed people.
Don’t tell me that the tax payers paid for this sh**. Damn!!
As a woman, I am offended. A woman is NOT simply a mutilated man. I’m sure men feel the same way about “sex changes” in the other direction.
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