Women Born Transsexual

She is some one who was born with a condition that has been called by a number of different name.  Commonly called transsexualism with HBS or Harry Benjamin Syndrome growing in popularity among some people who have come to view the term transsexualism as carrying too much baggage.

Woman born transsexual or WBT is a political statement of self definition, a declaration of independence from the suffocation of the overly crowded big tent of the “Transgender Community.”

When we started out we were rather angry with the refusal of the transgender community to use the simple phrase transsexual and transgender with no particular priority given to placement.

We often share common oppressions but we are not the same.  Particularly true of those of us who have completed Sex Reassignment Surgery.  Indeed most often our sharing of community tends to be during a period of transition with those of us who have SRS leaving that big tent to assimilate into the world of women.

But the purpose of this blog is not to tear the scabs off old wounds and to return to a level of animosity similar to that of 2000-2001.

There are far more important issues than fighting with transgender activists.

Among those issues are the removal of Gender Identity Disorder from the DSM.  Ending the performing of reparative therapy on transkids.  Removing the pseudo-science of the psychiatric mob and all there pathologizing psycho-babble about gender from dominating the discourse regarding the lives of people with transsexualism.

People with transsexualism should be the people in control of the processes that affect our lives.

Access to truthful information regarding our medical options and peer counseling are preferable to the current system that has psychiatric professionals who are often too cozy with the people who pathologized homosexuality deciding the information we recieve and determining our access to medical treatments.