Preamble
Men who
experience transsexualism are often mistakenly
assumed to be transgender.
They are often
assisted by transgender services and offered
language, terms and social recognition which at
best serve their specific needs superficially
and at worst understand them within a framework
of female health parameters and social
interaction.
FTM
Australia Position
Men who
experience transsexualism experience a
variation in human sexual formation, biological
in basis.
The atypical
process of sexual differentiation that results
in transsexualism is akin to that which results
in recognised intersex conditions.
FTM Australia understands
transsexualism to be an intersexual condition
like any other.
It is inaccurate
to consider medically diagnosable
neuro-biological conditions such as
transsexualism (and other intersex conditions)
as part of the social phenomenon of
transgenderism.
It is essential
to acknowledge males who experience
transsexualism as males; their specific health
issues related to transsexualism viewed no
differently from the specific health issues of
men who experience other medical
conditions.
The brain sex
and gender identity of males who experience
transsexualism remain static throughout life
despite the assignment of the opposite sex at
birth, and notwithstanding ambiguities in their
physical appearance (phenotype) prior to the
commencement of treatment.
Men affected by
transsexualism have the right to seek
appropriate subsidised health care.
Treatment for
transsexualism (hormone therapy and "sex
affirmation surgery" or SAS) should be carried
out under the supervision of interdisciplinary
medical practitioners. Such medical treatment is
irreversible.
Related
Reading
—
(2005)
"Terms
—
Position Statement",
FTMA
—
(2006)
Trangender
and Transsexualism
Table.
Position
Statement Written January 2004
Position Statement Revised 14 April
2007
Citation
— Men with ts - FTMA Position Statement.
(2004).
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