Stephen
(56 years old)
— "I am happy with what I have got,
it is fraught with complications and needs to be
thought through carefully".
Michael (55
years old)
— "The whole process of transition
was a series of steps that followed inevitably
first hormones, then chest and hysto. For awhile
I felt that this was enough.
After a few years had passed, again I felt
incomplete, more and more like some sort of
freak. I couldn't look at myself in a mirror. I
avoided going out. I started to get depressed
again. It was essential for my health both
mental and physical that I take that next step.
I had denied my true self life for 45 years and
that had led me on a path of total self
destruction. I had come so far & done so
much. I owed it to myself as Michael to take
that next step.
Birth is a painful process and most people
never feel that pain. We as men and women who
have this condition transsexualism do feel the
pain of our birth. For me, that pain led to a
life that was free of the pain I had felt for
those 45 years."
Jamie (33 years
old)
— "For me phalloplasty is very
necessary as I just want to be a normal guy and
normal guys have a penis! With phalloplasty I
will be more outgoing and more confident with
myself especially with girls, I will be able to
be more intimate with no barriers, I will be
able to just drop my daks and go for it!
I could not live if I didn't have
phalloplasty as my mind wants my body to match
so badly that for me, it was never a decision
whether to have a penis reconstructed or not, it
was like when can I have my penis! I s'pose its
sorta like the phantom limb syndrome as I can
mentally feel that I have a penis but I want to
actually see and feel it!
As for the cost! Yes it can be expensive and
yes, there can be many complications as I've got
one from having metoidioplasty but a lot of
surgeries have complications!
If you want this surgery, you have to be
healthy physically and mentally. The surgeons
prefer that you not be overweight and not
smoking as smoking does complicate the healing
process."
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