This is pretty old news, but I wanted to know what you guys thought of it. I'm glad the parents and everyone else was so accepting, but should parents really give a 16 year old permission to start this transition? If I felt that way at 16 and my parents let me change into a chick, I would be pretty upset with them. He probably should have waited til his mid 20s to start something like this. But that's just me. EDIT: lol omg how stupid, I forgot to put it the link http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=3077906&page=1
Are you talking about that British tranny they made a documentary about? I don't really care, though. I'd say cutting off your dick at 16 is pretty normal. :hat:
Yeah, I think 16 is too soon to make those choices. It's such a confusing time, and you don't really know who you are. (Now I sound old). I didn't think doctors would even consider letting someone that young start the transition. Was this in the U.S.?
What do you mean 'let'? People will do (hopefully) what feels most natural to them. She is her own person.
I don't think anyone here disagrees with you, but when he wants to start the reassignment into a male body, that's a permanent thing, and it doesn't always look totally natural. There's a reason why young kids can't go and get tattoos until they are 18, there CERTAINLY should be some stricter age-based regulations about reassignment surgeries. It's devastating when someone is born into a body that isn't their own, it's gotta be much much more devastating when you get the operations too quickly and have to live with them for the rest of your life. You would be hard pressed to find a 16 year old that has had enough meaningful relationships, both sexual and otherwise, to decide that they are fully ready to accept the responsibility of a sex change.
I think he did everything but the actual penis. I'm not sure how realistic the penises that they get from vaginas are.
Actually youre right, I didnt read the whole thing... I mean, as a parent, I wouldnt really give consent to permanent surgery, but I would let him/her dress, live as she pleased until 18. I think thats fair.
and waht if youve known since say, 5 or 6 that you were in the wrong gendered body? thats not exactly a snap decision... i dont really believe in elective surgery for kids though... the hormone therapy as a start would be great til he hits 18, then surgery can become an option imho. the son of one of my moms friends is currently on hormones until he can afford some surgeries and such, is going for androgyny at first til he can pass as agirl more effectively
That's a good point. Starting young would be beneficial if you think about the person's ultimate appearance. If they're changing from boy to girl, and the boy is beyond puberty, there are a lot more obvious "masculine" traits (height, body hair, deep voice, muscle) that you'd have to deal with. He'd never really look as feminine as he could. Or from female to male: Wait too long, you've got more work to do with less likelihood that the final appearance would be convincing. But psychologically? I dunno ....
Usually you need to have lived as the opposite gender for a couple of years and have had counselling before they will even consider giving you surgery. It's harder to do that a lot of people think and some decide they will be happy dressing the part without needing to cut anything off.
Yep.. Someone whom I worked with for years, who was a male, wanted to become a female, he had to have counseling for a while, then had to slowly start dressing like a women in public and kept having to take these steps and do them for a while until he had the final surgery...I'm not sure about the age and so forth, but I do know that the person who works here had a long journey before he could have the surgery...
Yep, they need to be able to handle the fact that they will probably still look like a man (or woman) after the surgery, and people are going to stare... It isn't magic. You have to be able to handle a lot.
Kind of shows how wrong the people are who think they're doing it as a "lifestyle." If you're willing to go through so much, it's got to be more than just a "preference."
