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pendy · 21-04-2006, 17:34

Although I know three people who have had gender reassignment surgery, I still don't really understand it. How can you know, if you are one gender, how it feels to be the other? So how can you know you would be happier male or female as the case may be? What is not generally known is that post surgery, the NHS has to fund constant hormone therapy in order to avoid a degree of regression - just removing/adding bits doesn't do it, bodies still produce some of the same male/female hormones. Add to this the cost of the tattoo removal and it is truly adding insult to injury.

21-04-2006, 17:34	#21
pendy Resting in peace Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: London/Oswaldtwistle Posts: 1,123 Liked: 0 times Rep Power: 909	Re: Changing sex/tattoos. Although I know three people who have had gender reassignment surgery, I still don't really understand it. How can you know, if you are one gender, how it feels to be the other? So how can you know you would be happier male or female as the case may be? What is not generally known is that post surgery, the NHS has to fund constant hormone therapy in order to avoid a degree of regression - just removing/adding bits doesn't do it, bodies still produce some of the same male/female hormones. Add to this the cost of the tattoo removal and it is truly adding insult to injury.