Transexuals
True transexuals are so desperately unhappy with
their biological sex that they will do literally anything to change their body. Before
surgical reassignment was a medical possibility, Transexuals would even castrate
themselves, such was their revulsion at having male sexual organs.
Both Eastern and Western mythology is littered
with accounts of men being turned into women, including the reference to the Roman emperor,
Nero, who suffering great remorse after killing his wife and unable to find another female
who resembled her, had a male slave called Sporus who bore a close facial resemblance
surgically transformed into a woman, and then married her.
Most psychologists and psychiatrists define the
condition as a fixed and unalterable belief, against all evidence to the contrary, that
one actually is a member of the opposite gender: a firmly held conviction that one
already is, and had somehow been born into, the wrong kind of body. There is no
non-operative cure for transexuals, though many other therapies have been tried. It is
true that a small proportion of Transexuals manage to come to terms with themselves as
they are, without treatment, but they are in the great minority. Most say that they wake up
every day, look in the mirror and are surprised at what they see. An alien body and face stares back at them, a face and a body that they consider does not belong to
them. Almost all proceed to eventually have hormone treatment and surgery.
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