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> Glad you bought this to my attention as
> I made a complaint to the BBC in
> February 2008 regarding their usage of
> the term "Sex Change" as many
> Transpeople find it an offensive term.
>
> I have now followed it up with yet
> another complaint, and hope they have
> the sense to take it more seriously.
>
> Nic
>
I had my sex change operation in 1972 and consider "Sex Change" to
be a very acceptable colloquial version of Sex Reassignment Surgery.
Indeed I am using is freely in the memoir that includes discussion
of the first Transsexual Self Help Groups which were financed by Reed
Erickson as well as descriptions of the thinking of those of us who who
went through the University Medical Center programs in the days before
transgender, GID and other social constructs were foisted upon us by
academe as well as the psychiatric establishment.
What I find far more objectionable is Gender Reassignment Surgery,
Genital Reconstruction Surgery and the like all of which deny the
reality of the changing of not only the socially recognized assignment
but of the physical aspects of our assigned based on the same criteria
as people who were born with out transsexualism basis. Same standards
of assignment based on appearance of genitals.
Given that the genital surgery changes that visual appearance from
male to female or from female to male then it is indeed if some what
crudely put a "sex change operation"
Suzan Cooke
WBT Herstorian
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