I encountered an individual with an unusual effeminizing medical condition and a psychological preference for femaleness, all despite an outward male appearance.
It was her choice to enhance the medical condition with elective surgeries to emphasize her female nature and was quite successful.
Unfortunately, it has been many years (almost 40), and I cannot recall if or what she stated about her relationship with her parents. I'm thinking from my lack of recollection, it was not a subject of any importance to her. She had a married man 'sponsoring' her metamorphosis, and enjoyed traveling with him and his generosity. He did not find her steadily diminishing masculinity off putting, and I rather thought of him as a Professor Higgins type, only working with a rather more complete palette, including literally the ability to direct the sculpting of actual flesh.
Considering the era, she was remarkably well adjusted (as far as I could tell) and had tremendous confidence in a positive outcome from all her recreation.
This has probably considerably colored my view of other transgendered persons, as sadly I am learning, case as noted in the opening post are even now altogether to frequent.
Another problem, 40 years ago, I moved, she moved, everybody moved, and without the internet, we lost touch. I've tried quizzing friends and some internet searches, and I've never been able to find her. She may have emigrated to Europe upon completion of her surgeries, but no one really knows.
It was her choice to enhance the medical condition with elective surgeries to emphasize her female nature and was quite successful.
Unfortunately, it has been many years (almost 40), and I cannot recall if or what she stated about her relationship with her parents. I'm thinking from my lack of recollection, it was not a subject of any importance to her. She had a married man 'sponsoring' her metamorphosis, and enjoyed traveling with him and his generosity. He did not find her steadily diminishing masculinity off putting, and I rather thought of him as a Professor Higgins type, only working with a rather more complete palette, including literally the ability to direct the sculpting of actual flesh.
Considering the era, she was remarkably well adjusted (as far as I could tell) and had tremendous confidence in a positive outcome from all her recreation.
This has probably considerably colored my view of other transgendered persons, as sadly I am learning, case as noted in the opening post are even now altogether to frequent.
Another problem, 40 years ago, I moved, she moved, everybody moved, and without the internet, we lost touch. I've tried quizzing friends and some internet searches, and I've never been able to find her. She may have emigrated to Europe upon completion of her surgeries, but no one really knows.
