Hi all
This post is worthy of more comment than I can muster up at this time; only
to say for now that there are worse things in the world than being
homosexual. I mean at least 'these people' would be able to hang lovely
curtains and choose cushions to match. Sorry.....its my life of ostracision
that makes me so wicked - and the news that I am not a male :-)
If these people cannot have fulfilling
> sexual relationships as men, it seems to not give them the opportunity to
> function as females condemns them to ostracism and trauma as
non-functioning
> males or as equally ostracised homosexuals.
Laurence Bathurst
University of Sydney
School of Occupation and Leisure Sciences
PO Box 170
Lidcombe NSW 1825
Ph: 61 2 9351 9509
Fax: 61 2 9351 9166
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Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 12:40 AM
Subject: Re: transgender and disability
> Nobody addressed my earlier question about whether it is better, given the
> human worship of the penis, if a person is born with micropenis that
surgery
> and hormones make the gender a girl rather than suffer an entire lifetime
as
> a non-functioning "male." What got me interested in this subject is
having
> learned about micropenis issues from men with spina bifida on a list
similar
> to this. I had never heard about micropenis before hearing these men
discuss
> their pain at never being able to function with a woman and never being
able
> to trust a woman they are with (if they do have a relationship) for fear
she
> will always want a "real man." Is this lifetime of trauma "kinder" than
> having the person raised as a different gender?
>
> After seeing the discussion of micropenis on several lists I searched for
> mailing lists of persons with this condition. To my surprise, I found
one.
> But most of those involved seem to have dealt with it by becoming
> homosexuals. (The men on the spina bifida list, to my knowledge, were
not.)
> This seemed to support the claims held by some that homosexuality is not
> predetermined genetically but is a choice taken as the least painful route
> for those who did not feel secure in other relationships (some say with
their
> fathers but in this case with women who might not accept them as males
unable
> to function as such).
>
> Interesting discussions, but I'd like to make the call that while we talk
> theories and that's fine, to remember the bottom line in all human affairs
> (no pun intended) is relationship. >
> ARIEL
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