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When you have no legal recognition and little or no recognition among the medical community this type of thing could happen so so easily (though it could happen to any trans person, no matter how normative their gender or their surgical status or legal status)...
Warning to any trans readers, it's very upsetting and triggery.
http://questioningtransphobia.wordpress.com/2010/01/10/is-a-dream-a-lie-if-it-dont-come-true-or-is-it-something-worse/
It's made worse when you have fuckers who work as gender shrinks saying shit like what was said in an article in the Independant:
A certain gender 'specialist' who until recently practised 'privately in London, believes that most androgynes suffer from a personality disorder, or are rebelling against society. "Unlike transsexuals," he says, "their gender disorder stems from socialised behaviour and their own personality, rather than what some hormone has done to their brain." He adds, however, that they are often "very unusual, very bright, very alienated, very individualistic and feel strongly that they are who they are".'
Of course there's no medical evidence to back this up, but who needs evidence to back up bigotry...
Warning to any trans readers, it's very upsetting and triggery.
http://questioningtransphobia.wordpress.com/2010/01/10/is-a-dream-a-lie-if-it-dont-come-true-or-is-it-something-worse/
It's made worse when you have fuckers who work as gender shrinks saying shit like what was said in an article in the Independant:
A certain gender 'specialist' who until recently practised 'privately in London, believes that most androgynes suffer from a personality disorder, or are rebelling against society. "Unlike transsexuals," he says, "their gender disorder stems from socialised behaviour and their own personality, rather than what some hormone has done to their brain." He adds, however, that they are often "very unusual, very bright, very alienated, very individualistic and feel strongly that they are who they are".'
Of course there's no medical evidence to back this up, but who needs evidence to back up bigotry...