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Posted on 11/10/2010 3:02:59 AM PST by markomalley
A man who underwent sex change surgery to look like a woman – then changed back – says the NHS should halt all sex change operations.
Charles Kane, who spent £100,000 on operations to make him look like a woman, says he needed counselling, not surgery.
“Based on my own experiences, I believe sex-change operations should not be allowed, and certainly not on the NHS”, he says.
Mr Kane says: “People who think they are a woman trapped in a male body are, in my opinion, completely deluded. I certainly was.
“I needed counselling, not a sex-change operation.”
He adds: “In many ways I see myself as a victim of the medical profession.”
Mr Kane was born Sam Hashimi but had an operation to make him look like a woman in 1997.
He believes that the decision to have sex change surgery came as a result of the trauma of the breakdown of his marriage.
He then lived as Samantha Kane, working as an interior designer and engaging in a jet set lifestyle.
But Mr Kane was not happy. He said he felt he was merely playing a role and he disliked what female hormones were doing to his emotions.
In 2004 he decided he had made a mistake to live as a woman and proceeded to spend £25,000 on three further operations at London’s Charing Cross Hospital.
He is now Charles Kane and is seeking funding for a documentary entitled The Sex Change Delusion.
Critics of sex change operations say that gender dysphoria is a psychiatric problem, not a physical one, and radical physical surgery does more harm than good.
A Home Office report from April 2000 said: “Many people revert to their biological sex after living for some time in the opposite sex”.
In 2007 Dr Russell Reid, a doctor specialising in gender dysphoria, was found guilty of serious professional misconduct because he rushed patients into sex change surgery before they had been properly assessed. In 2004 Charles Kane accused Dr Reid of convincing him to have a sex change operation.
At the beginning of this year it emerged that a 16-year-old boy was to become the UK’s youngest sex change patient after the NHS approved his surgery.
In an interview with a national newspaper Bradley Cooper said: “People might think I’m too young to make such a huge decision but I know my own mind and this is what I want.” He added: “The doctors have said I need the surgery for my own peace of mind.”
Last year a mother of a 14-year-old boy who wants to have sex change treatment said it should be allowed on the NHS before a child reaches puberty.
Carole Smith says her son wants to become a girl and should be allowed the hormone blockers now before he reaches 18.
According to The Sun, Georgie’s mum (not his real name) blasted health chiefs for banning youngsters from taking sex change drugs until after puberty.
In June a transsexual man won the right to be treated as a man in the marriage system and a woman in the pensions system.
Christopher Timbrell, who has changed his name to Christine, won his case against the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) in June.
Three Appeal Court judges ruled he was being discriminated against by not receiving a woman’s pension and he will now be paid backdated funds.
The American diet pretty dramatically decreases test over time. Test is a key indicator of male well-being, physically and mentally. Some data suggests low test contributes to Alzheimer’s (lots of things also contribute to that, but that is one of them). Test is critical to weight control (maintenance of muscle mass, keeping metabolism up). And the sense of mental well being is also critical. Low test will always lead to depression, maybe mild, maybe severe.
There is nothing good about low test for men.
And there is nothing sinister about testosterone therapy. It won’t send a man off on ‘roid rage.
Carole Smith says her son wants to become a girl and should be allowed the hormone blockers now before he reaches 18.
According to The Sun, Georgie’s mum (not his real name) blasted health chiefs for banning youngsters from taking sex change drugs until after puberty.
Did this idiot ever take into account that perhaps, once his testosterone level shot up, he might take a liking to females and perhaps realize he was going to ring a bell that can't be un-rung? It sounds to me as if mommy wanted a girl and raised this boy as a girl and wants to block him from turning into a young man.
I have no idea what "Glee" is.
Nor do I want to know.
Sorry I have to disagree.
Why not just adjust diet.
Also there is a blood test that can test tetesterone levels if a man truly has a medical problem.
I am not buying the American diet crap.
There is a cure for poor diet choices.
What do you suggest women who eat the same diet and suffer from deppression ect that is diet related?
Ever heard of fasting to clean the diet induced toxins out of the body.
It is not an easy task but a good healthy fast does wonders for the mind/body/soul.
I might add I don’t see anything wrong for male or female who are lacking in hormones to have replacement therapy.
I do feel it should be verified with the proper blood work.
Also be administered in proper doses by a physician who is qualified in such matters.
” I have no idea what “Glee” is.
Nor do I want to know. “
You really really don’t want to know (but I’ll tell you anyway)....: It’s a politically correct show that gets every issue from suicide to gay football players kissing to death to viscious cat fighting scenario’s in the plot and then they sing about it....
I’m certain it will win many many awards for it’s outstanding plots and acting....(already has I think) sad crappy television.
Reason #68,785,209 why I don't watch broadcast TV
I thought my tagline was funnier than my name, but no one seems to get it in this benighted age.
I dont disagree with any of that. Should be based on blood work, and should be therapeutically administered by a physician who actually has thought about this sort of thing.
And yes, for “generally” healthy men, a combination of diet and some anaerobic exercise will keep test up in healthy ranges.
The problem is when it dips too low that these things are not enough to get it out of the basement. Also, when a man is truly low, having him find the motivation to do anaerobic exercise will be next to impossible. Likely he will be depressed. He needs something to move him into the range of normal where he has some sort of normal motivation, and then you are right, the other healthy things of life can take over.
End of the day, I don’t disagree with anything you wrote in either of those posts. (I do think, as an addendum, that in addition to being a moral problem, the transexual idea is a psychiatric problem, and test might have some beneficial aspects in that regard, but again, the docs can figure that out. Not likely to happen in the UK, though....).
Agree.
At first I was seeing this as excuses, but who is it that approves, directs, suggests, helps, enables, fosters, the individual in their quest? The quote doesn’t say much about either the individual or the medical community that make it all possible.
Exactly. I think doctors who do this kind of mutilation on their patients should have their medical licenses pulled. A guy saying he wants to be a woman has some serious issues in his life that he needs to confront--the worst thing for him is some doctor who sees an opportunity to profit. (Ditto for women "wanting" to be men.) Maleness or femaleness are hardwired into the brain during fetal development as a result of being exposed to sex-specific hormones, and there's no way to change that.
You are a bad man.
That's, um, boring...
OTOH, try being in a household with a daughter going through puberty while the mom is going through menopause.
A single vowel makes it entertaining.
It's primarily fault of those that lied to him -- the godless left and homosexual activists -- to advance their own agendas. Such types prey vulnerable people.
In sane times, a society would have stigmatized his behavior and encouraged him to get psychological and spiritual help.
"Rosebud..."
” First thing my mom said when she learned I was a boy was, “Good. I want him castrated.”
She mean’t to say, ‘circumsized’. I try to imagine the doctor’s and nurse’s reaction. “
Are you absolutely SURE your mom was confused?
LOL
Dude... you KILL me ! LOL
Rosebud..... rotflmao!
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