Kate,
you are not the only woman here and just because you didn't follow the Standards of Care, those
of us who are going through our transition through a gender clinic ran under our public health system
have no choice but to adhere to the Standards of Care. I don't know how you got approval for SRS
without following them. So it sounds to me like someone told a few tall stories somewhere to get
approved for SRS. Personally I would rather follow the SoC than to do something stupid which may
jeopardise my whole transition and put my health at risk. So I think Kate some of your advice is very
dangerous and very misleading. Anyway, I am not here to talk about your path, I am here to talk about
the paths that others must follow.
The thing that I liked about the new Standards of Care is that they are more inclusive and highlight
the need that other gender variants also suffer from similar issues to transsexuals and that some of
the treatments may be used to help them as well. This has angered those who followed the original
Harry Benjamin Standards of Care & those people who believe that it should support only those with
transsexualism, and who are really offended now because 'gender non-conforming people' who might
have '
Transvestic Fetishism' are now managed under the same set of guidelines for gender disorders.
I had a run in a few days ago with
Charlotte Goiar on Facebook over this after she added me to her group
and posted a link to the new site I am setting up for our support group which also follows the WPATH SoC.
After she posted a link to my site, there discussion was taking place about the site and the new WPATH SoC
which obviously will play a huge part in how I structure the new site and about what information I publish on it.
There was some debate starting to allude to the site's definitions of the gender variants, but it was explained that
it is only a new site & that content was still being drafted up to be added that used the same terminologies as
are outlined in the new SoC. But when I pointed out why 'inclusion' was so important to our group my comments
got a lot of support from other group members, but I got kicked from the group after I made the comment. So I
contacted Charlotte to enquire as why she did that and here is the response...
The first comment that
Charlotte Goiar makes proves that she is taking offence to terms like "
gender non conforming".
Charlotte has obviously taken offence because transsexuals have been put in the same group as these other gender
types and that our needs should always remain exclusive of everyone else's is the feeling I get here. But the truth is
many gender variants are affected by
Gender Dysphoria which is a mood condition that relates to gender identity issues
and this is how it has now been outlined in the new WPATH SoC.
Gender Identity Disorder (GID) is a totally different
condition to
Gender Dysphoria (GD), however GD can affect those who are diagnosed with GID, but GD can also affect
all other gender non-conforming (GNC) people.
Charlotte graciously "
invited me to re-join again after there is more clear differentiation of the different conditions"
on my site. But I told her not to bother - my whole opinion of that woman has been changed in the blink of an eye
after her very crazy response to these new Standards of Care.