*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.
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.?
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.
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?
Sexist!
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.