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."
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
New Cougar on the block....
Let's not forget the millions that have had obamabotomies.
Was there any reference about it being publicly funded? If not, while I find it distasteful, it’s his money. If my tax dollars paid for this, I’m outraged.
lesbian - male - and artificial male pursues females?
OOOPS! I confused things.
Richard Ramsey is now Renee!
So male to a female and yet as a HE, he was MARRIED to a FEMALE. Help! This confuses me. At 77, a sex change is not going to stop the utter confusion in this person's head. It's sick. Where are the Psychiatrists when you need them or did they condone this? It's truly NUTS out there.
Guy reminds me of episodes of ‘Benny Hill’ where the little old guy would have on a wig and dress like a woman and Benny would come up from behind...
Oh Lordy, what is with these old guys getting a sex change?
He looks like Whistler’s Mother already anyway.
How pitiful.
Hey Renee,
what does your DNA say?
They might make it mandatory so the ratio of men to women will be exact. They'll pcik a certain number of women and turn them into guys.
That is the surgery Rush calls "addadictomy."
Maybe the “vet” part was mentioned because VET BENEFITS paid for it? In other words, YOU paid for it?
I also think they mentioned it to boost up support for this in the military and ENCOURAGE more of this craziness.
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Sexist!
USAFR; IIRC.
Ugly, ugly, 2 bag ugly.
Four kids with his first wife. Never seen them since their divorce in the fifties.
From the article:
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Ramsey is one of a small but growing group of people in this country and around the world who are identifying themselves as transgender. No one knows exact numbers because many people are still secretive about it.
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Mara Keisling, executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality, estimates that at least 700,000 in the U.S. would describe themselves as transgender. The American Psychological Association puts the prevalence rate at 1 in 10,000 for male-to-female and 1 in 30,000 for female-to-male, although Washington-based psychologist Michael Hendricks, who specializes in gender issues, says those numbers are decades old. Males still switch more, but the differential is not nearly that great, he says.
These calculations do not include those who are merely cross-dressers, who get a thrill from wearing their wives’ silk underwear, or like to go public in a dress and high heels. They refer only to those who identify as being of the opposite sex from their birth and who may or may not have had sex-reassignment surgery.
In any case, according to a recently completed four-year study in Britain, a rise in the incidence of transgender people may be around the corner. “Our data provide strong evidence that the trans population is growing,” concluded Stephen Whittle, professor of equalities law at Manchester Metropolitan University in Britain, the study’s lead author.
(Yup! Trying to drum up support for more perversion. They do this for the homosexuals. They’d like you to believe that they are 10-12 % of the population. Reality is they are only 2-3% of the population.)
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Sherman Leis, the Bala Cynwyd plastic surgeon who performed Ramsey’s surgery, has performed more than 250 of what he calls “bottom surgeries” (changing the genitals) on men and women since he opened his Center for Transgender Surgery in 2004, an additional 1,000 or so “top surgeries” (breast augmentation or reduction), and 1,000 or more additional procedures, primarily on male-to-female patients to alter facial features that will make them more feminine - fuller lips, more delicate noses, narrower chins, lower frontal hairlines.
(The “top” and “bottom” surgeons are making a killing on thi$. They are exploiting the confusion of others.)
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In 1952, he joined the U.S. Navy, thinking military service might make him more of a man. It didn’t, and he endured being teased and called “little girl.”
Two years later, while a boatswain third class in the Navy, and still struggling for conformity, he married his first wife; they remained together until he confessed to her that he believed he was a woman. Ramsey says that despite having four daughters, their sex life was “just OK - we could take it or leave it.” They got a no-fault divorce in 1973 and Ramsey agreed to give his wife custody of the children. They moved to Arizona, and he has not seen them since.
Still dealing with denial, Ramsey married his second wife, Vesla, in 1982, a pretty 5-foot-1 woman he met at an American Legion convention in Wildwood. He didn’t tell her he was transgender, but three years later she had figured it out. “She began wondering why there were so many panties and pantyhose in the laundry,” Ramsey says, “and it finally dawned on her that I was wearing them too.”
“We had a sex life,” Ramsey says, “although I admit that when I was making love to her, I kept imagining what it would feel like to be her.” Vesla had a daughter with a mental disability to whom Ramsey says he became a devoted stepfather. Recalling that now, she catches herself and smiles. “I should say stepmother.” Ramsey says his birth daughters do not know that their father is now a woman.
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(It gets sicker:)
Since having the surgery, Ramsey has not lost friends, but admits that many of them don’t want to talk about her transition. “At home I dress like a lady and I always wear ladies’ underwear, but most of the time when I go out with my friends, I dress like a man,” Ramsey says.
With trepidation, she confided recently in her longtime buddy whom she sees every day. “He can’t put his head around it,” Ramsey says. “He’s on the fence. But we go out together. It’s like ‘don’t ask, don’t tell.’ “
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Being transgender has nothing to do with being lesbian or gay. Ramsey says she is heterosexual: When she was a he, he was attracted to women. Now she is drawn to men, although, at her age, she says she isn’t interested in a romantic relationship.
As Spack says, “It isn’t who you go to bed with, it’s who you go to bed as.”
(This is totally NUTS!)
I wonder ... how do the grandkiddies see this?
It must be confusing as hell.
Political cross-dresser Lindsey Graham is in the Air Force Reserves.
I write this with some embarrassment - - as a USAF vet.
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See #37.
It gets sicker.
This person needed emotional HELP.
I can’t believe this is happening ... . But I know it is.
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