Transexuals

[TaraJo]

I do have a question for Violet and Tara. I saw a documentary on transgendered people. One of which regretted the switch and eventually got reverse surgery. Is it possible for brain chemistry to change over a lifetime making sexual identity fluid rather than stagnant?

I will say this, only one of the transgendered in that documentary did that. The rest stayed with what the operation and were happy with it. I know that doctors do lots of rigorous pre-op mental conditioning to be sure the change wont be a bad choice for the person. But do we have research as to the ratio of success vs regret after the fact? I would assume that the "regret" ratio would be extremely low in any case.

I have a friend who seems to identify as more of a fluid gender and since he was born intersexed, it actually works out for him.

But if you do a little research on the people who transition and regret it, you usually see one important facet to them: most of the ones I've seen have been influenced by fundamentalist religious groups. So I put those people in about the same territory I put ex-gays. I guess, since we don't have much in the way of hard-science that tells us what makes people gay or trans or whatever, it's hard to say with certainty that your sexuality or gender identity don't change, but I can say with confidence that prayer isn't gonna do shit to change it.